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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

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In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. In fact, largely I was plagiarizing from a guy called Petr Ludwig who had already done all this in the Czech Republic. And it was very, yeah.