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#153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI

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Is There a Future Pandemic of Viruses?

I think contact tracing is obviously a key component in understanding the spread of this virus. It'd be cool if we also had a lot more data about the spread ofthis virus, but it's already nice that we have geographical data and basic data from individual humans. I talked to Michael Mina from Harvard who dreams that the community comes together with a weather map to where a virus is. Like really high resolution sensors on how from person to person the viruses that travel,. Because there's a ton of them. And then you'll be able to tell the story that you've spoken about of the evolution of these viruses - like day to day mutations that are occurring. That would be fascinating just from

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