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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks

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Sentinel Vaccines

The best prototype that I'm aware of this is rolling out right now in Nigeria. And it's sort of a three-tier system where clinicians in the field could very rapidly determine do you have one of the infections of acute interest here? So we want to diagnose as many as things as we can at the front line or because it's uncommon but unbelievably threatening like Ebola. But start with that level of detection and then layer on top of that other interesting things, search engine queries for evidence that strange clusters of symptoms are starting to rise in different places. There's been a lot of work done with that. Some of it has been powerful enough to suggest that this could be a very powerful early

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