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The CDC Is Using an Economist’s Data Tracker to Justify Reopening Schools. She Thinks That’s ‘Bananas.’

‘NOT MY FIELD’

Emily Oster, an economics professor at Brown University, was shocked to hear CDC Director Robert Redfield cite her website.

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