Dr. Donald van der Vaart, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, urges N.C. government officials to adopt more useful modeling as the state addresses the COVID-19 pandemic. Van der Vaart offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
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