The Importance of Historical Knowledge in Disaster Preparedness

Nicholas Christakis (@NAChristakis) is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, a physician, and author. His latest book is Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live.

• What social science tells us about our best shot (pun moderately intended) at achieving herd immunity from COVID-19.
• How social networks allowed the virus to spread and reinforced mistrust of well-known science among certain politically oriented segments of the populace.
• What the lessons of past disasters can teach us about the road ahead.
• Why the bad (and good) habits of our friends' friends can have an impact on our own behavior from across vast social networks.
• What we can do to best defend ourselves against the unwanted influence of these unseen members of our network.
• And much more...

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