The virus struck us right now when we are unable to work together to develop a basis of facts, and then fight our ideological battles apart from the facts. So we've been we've died. We're rising through five million werld wie world wide but in the united states, we will lose a million americans. Two million would have died if we'd done nothing, i believe. But a million of our fellow citizens, i think, at least, will have died before this pandemic is over,. partly for our lack of ability to have a sound, scientifically based, politically organized response.
How do diseases and information spread? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the history of pandemics, how social networks impact spread, and the hidden math behind it with sociologist Nicholas Christakis.
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