When the COVID-19 crisis began, it induced panic because of a lack of information about the disease and how deadly it was. Since then, data has been collected while much of the country has remained in lockdown. That data now appears to support the case that the worst is past us and it is time to re-open America. A huge national contingent of people make a vague claim that the lockdown "saves lives" yet never quantify it. So let’s do that. Using data from the LA County Department of Health and the NY City Health Department, the odds of catching...
