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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Antiviral Drugs - How to Stop Viruses From Infecting Us
Complexity makes it almost certain that early nmade bugs will be modifications of existing viruses, not completely artificial ones. It's currently beyond any one's capacity to make complex, functioning viruses from scratch. So how shall we face the threat of artificially modified viruses? Well, i'd say exactly how we should have been facing natural viruses for cades,. steps that probably could have stopped covit in its tracks. There are two main sets of tools to consider. The first is vaccines, to prevent viruses from infecting us in the first place. The second is medicines to help us fight viruses if we do get infected.
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