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430. Will a Covid-19 Vaccine Change the Future of Medical Research?

Freakonomics Radio

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Vaccines for Infectious Diseases - Is It a Good Idea?

Coven nineteen is the living experience of some of our greatest concerns. It has been surprising to me that we haven't done better in our response. I asked andrew low, the m i t Economist who studies risk, why he believes the u.S was so under prepared for a pandemic like cove 19. He said it's a market failure, certainly, because infectious diseases are a public health issue. But there's also a behaviorl failure. And the behavior failure is that we don't like paying for things that we don't really need right away....

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