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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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B C G Vaccine Could Be a Game Changer for Future Pandemics

The b c g vaccine could be a game changer for future pandemics. It costs as little as seven cents a dose and is made by 22 different manufacturers throughout the world. B c g's greatest super power seems to be fighting respiratory infections of all types. A huge percent e of pandemics, as well as novel diseases with the potential to become pandemics, are respiratory in nature. And god forbid we ever have an artificially modified h five n one outbreak. But if we do, why will that be a respiratory nightmare? If a future pandemic could be greatly softened by a precautionary b c g vaccination programme, we'd be fools not to do the inexpensive research

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