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Why pandemics are not inevitable with Sonia Shah

The TED Interview

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What Can We Learn From Past Pandemics?

Isa drike: What does it feel like to have your book kind of come true? It's very eerie, am and soreal. So what can we learn from past pandemics? I mean, it's interesting that you say that. We understand the transmission and sort of the causative agento pandemics to day very rapidly - but are we able to actually act on the knowledge in a way that will save lives? Yes. And i'm experiencing the horror and tragedy of it with everyone else,. But also having a lot of m sort of flash back to different historical epidemics and how they've unfolded.

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