Highlights: #164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives
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Evolutionary tradeoff in pandemics
The chapter explores the tradeoff between transmissibility and lethality in pandemics, discussing rare cases of high transmissibility and high lethality pathogens. It also addresses the potential for engineering to disrupt this tradeoff and the urgency to find solutions.
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