The 18 90 russian fluw might actualy have been corono viris. And now the virus that causes the common cold, may actually be the distant echo of that what was then a very serious respiratory pandemic more than a hundred years ago. The social end of the pendemic is when people say, you know what, we're just going to accept this and i think that's beginning to happen in our society. So if the mild version is ascendant, then does that mean, ultimately it will. Think of it as the comesse yes.
How do diseases and information spread? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the history of pandemics, how social networks impact spread, and the hidden math behind it with sociologist Nicholas Christakis.
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