Ra Respiratory Pendemic

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iwanto, put a few more numbers to to what youve just described here. And globally, they estimate that it's more like 17 million people who have died so far. This analysis would adjust that upward by about 20%. i'm surprised that it's not always happening. Yes, ra respiratory pendemics come every ten or 20 years, and serious ones every 50 or a hundred years.

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy, vaccine safety, how to think about scientific controversies, the epidemiology of excess deaths, transmission among the vaccinated, natural immunity, selection pressures and new variants, the failure of institutions, the lab-leak hypothesis, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, boosters, what would happen in a worse pandemic, and other topics.

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