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Why pandemics are not inevitable with Sonia Shah

The TED Interview

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Pandemics Are Inevitable, but We Don't Have to Spread These Around So Rapidly

It seems like pandemics are argoing, are a feature of human existence. But they are also manufactured by our socaln political choices. We don't have to spread them around the world rapidly in a pandemic. And we don't have to create that basically built highways for these microbes who enterd the human body. There's all it moved risk factors, or there's costs and benefits, and you have to weigh those.

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