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The debate on easing or extending lockdown restrictions in the wake of Covid-19 is a matter of “lives versus lives”, and not of “lives versus livelihoods” as it is currently being framed, Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University, tells Govindraj Ethiraj, journalist and founder of Boom, a fact-checking initiative.
You are a professor of medicine at Stanford (did an MD) and did a PhD in Economics. Tell us what made you go into economics after doing medicine?
I have always been interested in medicine. I loved science. In school, I encountered economics and I was amazed to find
