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Dr. Nicholas Christakis, Yale COVID-19 expert, returns to discuss booster shots and what to expect next with the pandemic

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Is the Virus Killing Us Fast?

The virus struck us at a particular moment of vulnerability in our society. We had a kind of thinned out intellectual life in our society, and we engaged in denial. The political polarization pre existed the virus, but it made our response to virus worse. Third problem is that science has become very politicized on the right and left. Each political camp has different inconvenient truths they would rather ignore. And i'm and there's a kind of loss of belief that science can fail and i understand it’s a human activity,. I get it  when done right, but when not done right, science is an excellent discipline for correcting self-deceit.

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