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THE EFFECT OF LARGE-SCALE ANTI-CONTAGION POLICIES ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Social distancing circles at Dolores Park, San Francisco; Photo by Peiley Lau

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UC Berkeley Study Says Covid-19 Prevention Measures Prevented 500 Million Infections

Solomon Hsiang, U.C. Berkeley Professor of Public Policy and Global Policy Laboratory director, discusses his study on the impact of emergency health measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Bloomberg: Balance of Power."

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MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow shares the results of a study out of U.C. Berkeley that shows how many millions more people would have been infected by the coronavirus if stay-at-home orders and other preventative measures had not been enacted.

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MSNBC Rachel Maddow interviews Solomon Hsiang

Solomon Hsiang, professor of public policy at U.C. Berkeley, talks with Rachel Maddow about the results of a study of the effectiveness of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and the historic feat that humans around the world have achieved in adjusting their behavior to slow the spread of the disease.

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KRON4 San Francisco

UC Berkeley study says COVID-19 prevention measures prevented 500M infections. As co-author of the new-study, Ian Bolliger explains the number of total infections would’ve been even larger, as not everyone is tested.

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Sacramento County sees increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations

“The cost of these policies -- people losing their jobs, children being kept home from school -- are highly visible,” said co-author Hannah Druckenmiller.

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Arirang TV

Did lockdowns save millions of lives? Arirang TV speaks with Jaecheol Lee, a researcher at the Global Policy Lab at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley Study Says Covid-19 Prevention Measures Prevented 500 Million Infections

MSNBC Rachel Maddow interviews Solomon Hsiang

Sacramento County sees increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations

Radio

KCBS Radio News

The U.S., and California in particular, was able to avert millions of cases of the Coronavirus due to the precautions taken to keep the pandemic at bay. KCBS Radio news anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising spoke with Ian Bolliger, a PhD Candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley and co-author of the study.

Radio Nacional Colombia La FM

Andy Hultgren, PhD Candidate University of California, Berkeley, habló en La FM sobre el estudio que busca evidencia que las medidas de cuarentena para contener la propagación del coronavirus han sido eficientes, en la lucha contra la enfermedad.

Cap Radio

As California continues to reopen more businesses, Sacramento and San Joaquin counties are seeing an uptick in coronavirus hospitalizations. CapRadio’s Randol White will talk with UC Berkeley researcher, Hannah Druckenmiller, about just how much of an impact our precautions have had.

94.1 KPFA

2.2 million people applied for unemployment last week; Covid-19 hospitalizations increase in 12 states; New study says lockdowns averted 62 million virus cases, Andy Hultgren speaks to 94.1 KPFA.

CALIFORNIA SUN

Peiley Lau, a researcher at the UC Berkeley Global Policy Lab explains a new study showing that nearly 1.7 million coronavirus infections may have been avoided in California — and many more throughout the world — thanks to policies that kept people at home. It was a collective action unlike anything that has ever happened.

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