Kovid

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With any communicable disease outbreak, it always starts very quietly. One or two signals does not a data set make. By the time you have enough data to be academically correct, you're screwed. Anyone who's managed disease outbreaks on the front lines knows that this is true. And so when i talk about trust, that's what i mean. Trusts the currency of public health.

Charity Dean was one of the first public health officials to set the alarm on COVID. When she searched for a tool to forecast future bio threats, she realized that it didn’t exist yet. So she co-founded the Public Health Company, where she uses lessons from her government experiences, but without the same rules or limits. She speaks with Bob Safian about why all companies must be public health companies.

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