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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Is There a Market Failure for a Universal Flue Vaccine?
A universal flue vaccine effort would probably have very good chances of succeeding, at least 50 %, which is a shot worth taking. According to harvey feinberg, it's probably more like a 50 to 75 per cent chance. He believes that much as we could create a universal vaccine effort for influenza, we could do that against any arbitrary number of viral families. But even if you multiply this out by every family we can think of, by two billion dollars over ten years, that the numbers that come back are just miniscule," he says.
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