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Why pandemics are not inevitable with Sonia Shah

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Pandemics - What Does It Look Like?

Do we typically transform as a society post pandemic? I think that's what's been so frustrating about writing about infectious diseases for all these years, is that things don't change enough. We keep doing the same things, and therefore they keepi there, they're able to continue to exploit our our behaviors. You know, i think we're getting to a point now though that, you know, with this pandemic in particular, where business as usual has been so disruptive,.  I think there's going to be more political will to actually get to the root causes of why we're so vulnerable to these new pathagans. And there is a lot of things we can do

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