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In February 2020, he wrote an article for [[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] titled "The Cognitive Bias That Makes Us Panic About Coronavirus".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/coronavirus-panic-caused-by-probability-neglect|title=The Cognitive Bias That Makes Us Panic About Coronavirus|work=Bloomberg|first=Cass R.|last=Sunstein|date=February 28, 2020|accessdate=April 18, 2022}}</ref> In it he claimed that "A lot more people are more scared than they have any reason to be" and that "Most people in North America and Europe do not need to worry much about the risk of contracting the disease. That's true even for people who are traveling to nations such as Italy that have seen outbreaks of the disease." He attributed the excessive perceived risk to [[probability neglect]]. At time of publication, there have been 68 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S., including one death, and approximately 1000 new daily cases worldwide, over 300 of which in Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105613/covid19-new-daily-cases-worldwide-by-region/|title = COVID-19 new daily cases worldwide by region 2020}}</ref>
Sunstein joined the [[Department of Homeland Security]] in February 2021 as an advisor to the Biden Administration on immigration policy.<ref>{{cite news |last=Epstein |first=Jennifer |date=2021-2-8 |title=Harvard’s Sunstein Joins Biden’s DHS to Shape Immigration Rules |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-08/harvard-s-sunstein-joins-biden-s-dhs-to-shape-immigration-rules |work=Bloomberg |access-date=2022-1-15}}</ref>
Together with [[Daniel Kahneman]] and Olivier Sibony, Sunstein co-authored ''[[Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment]]'', which was published in May 2021. Drawing not least upon legal examples, it treats of unwanted variability in human judgments of the same problem, for instance when court judges recommend vastly different sentences for the same crimes. The book looks both at what 'noise in human judgment' is, how it can be detected and how it can be reduced.
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