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58: Recipes for Future Plagues | Kevin Esvelt

The After On Podcast

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Is There a Pendemic Capable Virus?

Human to human transmission is not the same as causing a pendemic. What fraction of those two thousand could actually cause a pandemic? It's not really known, because the ones that are endemic in humans are a bias sample from all of history. Now there are much better computational tools for matching virus to host species by receptor similarity and the like. So when deep vision decides avirus is worth testing from the sequence data, they are going to have a much better shot at identifying at that virus being high risk than predict was a case o thet plathis back.

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