Webinar: Strong Social Distancing Measures in the US Reduced the COVID-19 Growth Rate
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June 3, 2020
Noon - 1pm
Zoom link: https://cph.uky.edu/DistancingData
Join the University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health and Gatton College of Business and Economics for a discussion of new research demonstrating that social distancing measures imposed by state and local governments at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic were effective in slowing disease transmission, thereby saving lives.
Presenters:
Charles Courtemanche, PhD, associate professor of Economics and Interim Director of the Institute for Study of Free Enterprise, Gatton College of Business and Economics; and Aaron Yelowitz, PhD, professor of Economics, Gatton College of Business and Economics will present research findings.
Discussants:
Teresa M. Waters, PhD, professor and Wethington Endowed Chair in Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, and James Ziliak, PhD, professor and Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics