Currents 099: Samuel Scarpino on Preparing for the Next Pandemic
The Jim Rutt Show
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The Importance of High Resolution in the Pandemic
"We ought to have the authority to have whatever we need in the case of let's say a terroristically deployed 100 locations, late Cold War, weaponized Soviet smallpox," he says. "Right now, we just sort of have our head in the stand waiting for something bad to happen instead of picking our head up out of the sand and trying to figure out what we can do about it." 'I don't like to agree when somebody pushes back because that makes the conversation less interesting,' Obama adds.
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