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Social Networks and Ending the Pandemic with Nicholas Christakis
StarTalk Radio
What Is the Capacity of the Virus?
In our time of need, when we were being beset by a deadly pathagin, you would think we would say, aha, we can now take advantage of this and save our lives. And yet, a significant fraction of people and a significant will didn't do i'll say one more thing. I think the intermediate lothality of this pathagan, it's ten times deadlier than the flue, but it's not as deadly as smallpox or bubonic plague or cholera which can kill 30 or 50 % of the people they infect. So so this virus, was really sneaky. You know, it hit us right. It has what is called protean
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