Is There a High Probability of Zero Pandemic Capable Virals?

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It is possible thetyou will find zero pandemic capable viruses, in which case the programme cannot trigger any of the terrifying things that we're about to talk about. The upper ceiling could be eight. It could be higher because of improved technology. Bottoms up estimate gets us into the possibility of it maybe even being low dozens. That's a much better way of estimating it than givinga thank you.

In this episode of the podcast, Rob Reid and Kevin Esvelt discuss USAID’s new “Deep VZN” program, which aims to discover new pandemic-grade viruses and publish their genomes to the world. Esvelt estimates that there are currently around 30,000 people who could then easily build them.

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