Episode · Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova · 2025-07-10
Books mentioned on Why did COVID Decision-Making Go So Wrong? (with David Zweig)
Early in the COVID pandemic, the US closed schools and sent kids home. And then, the schools stayed closed—even as they began to reopen in other parts of the world.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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An Abundance of Caution
An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions by David Zweig is an investigative examination of the institutional decision-making processes and faulty rationales that led to prolonged pandemic school closures.
Discussed“David Zwag is a journalist and author, most recently of the book, An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.”
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