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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. Jeremy Howard : So people who demand gold standard evidence to do anything, like masks for example. Massachusetts is rapidly moving as well. Eric Ries : Yeah.