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Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics, and What We Can Do

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The New Coronavirus

The coronavirus is like a family that's been around for a while that we've known about. We had not seen this particular lineage infect people before, but we did know about others in that coronavirus family previously. The animal that looks most responsible right now are bats.

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