Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. We can all repeat the mantra without missing any beat: the lockdown was required to flatten the curve so that our hospital resources would not...
If we want to understand the numbers behind the need to "flatten the curve," we must look at how government programs like Medicare have reduced hospital capacity in recent decades.
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