Chapter 2: Reviewing the Policy Responses to COVID-19 with Scott Atlas | LFHSPBC

A Critical Look at the Data on Masking

How effective are masks at blocking transmission of COVID-19? How does “masking” in real life differ from “masks” in the aggregate? Are there costs to widespread mask mandates? Atlas considers these questions and summarizes the data from early in the pandemic.

Click below to watch the other videos in this series.

Additional resources:

Read Scott Atlas’s book A Plague upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America. Available here.

Read “During COVID, the More Prestigious the College, the Lower the Quality of Education,” by Paul Peterson, John Schoof, and Jay Greene via The Hill. Available here.

Watch “An Endless Summer: How COVID Has Reversed Academic Achievement,” with Macke Raymond on PolicyEd. Available here.

Watch “Rick Hanushek on Remedying the Achievement Gaps from School Closures,” featuring Rick Hanushek. Available here.

Listen to “Scott Atlas on How Everything the Media Says about COVID Is Wrong and Why Trump Didn’t Fire Fauci,” via the Federalist Radio Hour. Available here.

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Masks work. They don't affect spread of viruses, of course, but they are very good tools for training people to become accustom to being harnessed by authorities.