The Pandemic Information Solution

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The book explores the critical role of information in managing pandemics, emphasizing that a lack of knowledge about who is infectious hinders efforts to control the spread of Covid-19. Joshua Gans argues that the significant health and economic impacts of the pandemic stem from this information gap. By framing pandemics as fundamentally information problems, he highlights the necessity of accurate data to effectively break transmission chains and mitigate the crisis.