Brandon explains what a coronavirus is 1:55
Where the virus came from 9:59
Evaluating the “laboratory escape” theory 19:16
The path to an effective vaccine 21:06
Brandon: We have not been alarmist about the pandemic 24:02
Why a forecasting model can be way off but still correct 27:38
Brandon: The federal government has underreacted from the start 35:00
Brandon critiques the surgeon general’s messages to African Americans 40:39

Glenn Loury (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University) and C. Brandon Ogbunu (Brown University)

Recorded April 20, 2020