"Australia's Covid Response" with Economist Steven Hamilton

<p>Australia's response to the pandemic was among the most aggressive -- and controversial -- in the world. What went right? What went wrong? </p> <p> </p> <p>At last, we have a much-needed accounting of the lessons of Covid, from the Aussie academic who became an unlikely pandemic authority in the U.S. thanks to his position as an outspoken economics professor at George Washington University in Washington D.C.</p> <p> </p> <p>Steven Hamilton's new book is a frank, factual, fierce recap of the Covid years. Written with his fellow economist Richard Holden, "Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race" will be an important tool for the next pandemic.</p>