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8. A Playbook for Beating the Next Pandemic

Freakonomics, M.D.

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How to Identify a Pandemic

We cannot trust that through international agreements alone, everyone coming together at the world health assembly under the w h o and holding hands. Some people are reluctant to take a vaccine because they say, well, it's novel, and i'm young and healthy, or i've had covid and so i don't really need the vaccine. I would argue we have more experience with this vaccine than we do most modern therapeutics. You know, 300 n 50 million doses have been administered in the us. For some of em, the f da approval was something that was important. Others, you know, i think providers will be able to get more of those people in that bucket vacinate. And

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