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#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19

Mar 13, 2020

01:13:40

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Drug Companies Can't Tell a Doctor, Ha, You Can Prescribe for Purpose B

01:42

How to Detect a Virus

05:40

The Difference Between Groth Rate and Base Rate Extrapolation

02:47

Introduction

3min

Dot I and C Balage, Welcome to the Show

3min

What's an Epidemic?

2min

Is This a Pandemic?

2min

Viruses of Unan Province in China

2min

How Did We Find Patients?

2min

How to Detect a Virus

6min

Virus Sequencing - A New Tool for Detecting Infectious Diseases

2min

Is Every Time a Virus Infects Someone, It Mutates?

2min

10.

What Are the Long Term Effects of This?

2min

11.

A Systematic Spreading

2min

12.

Isatis Is a Most Characteristic Symptom, Right?

2min

13.

The Silver Lining of the Virus in the Future

4min

14.

What's the Second Order Consequences of a Bio Law Around a Country?

2min

15.

Is the Flue Really a Disease?

2min

16.

Why Should We Care About This More Than the Flue?

2min

17.

Is It a Chinese Reaction, or a Necessity?

2min

18.

How Does Fecal Transmission Affect Intensive Care?

3min

19.

What Are the Second Order Consequences of Hand Centere?

3min

20.

Is the Primary in the Mirror?

2min

21.

Work From Home - What Are the Second Order Consequences?

3min

22.

Are the Governments Doing This Differently?

2min

23.

The Difference Between Groth Rate and Base Rate Extrapolation

3min

24.

Pandemic Response - What Should Governments Do?

3min

25.

Do You Need a Pre Marked Review to Ship a Lab Test?

3min

26.

Drug Companies Can't Tell a Doctor, Ha, You Can Prescribe for Purpose B

2min

27.

Emergency Expanded Right to Try

3min

28.

What's the Probability of a Chronovirs in a Thousand People?

3min

29.

The Invisible Threat

3min

This special pop-up episode explores Covid-19, with Balaji Srinivasan. Balaji is one of the more thought-provoking, interesting, and multi-disciplinary thinkers I know and we do a deep dive, including possible second and third-order consequences.

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