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Social Networks and Ending the Pandemic with Nicholas Christakis

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Is There a Demographic Shift in Respect for Science During This Pandemic?

I taught a course at yale lasamester on global catastrophes with bill nordhouse, the famous economist who won the nobel prize for his work on climate change. And you can think of the the coronovirs pendemic as a kind of accelerated version of the challenge we are going to face with climate change. We're goin to have more pandemics in the future. There's some scientific evidence that the interpendemic interval is shortening. So we could get another one in five years, and ten years, and 20 years and 30 years. We don't know when it's going to happen, but it's clear to me that we're going to

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