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Contagion: epidemiology, snake oil, and curve-flattening
Manage episode 256506022 series 1500788
Our world is on the brink of some possibly extreme unpleasantness. Known unknowns threats to civilization. Humanity is bad at planning for statistically-likely-but-not-definite disaster.
BullshitThe anti-scientific garbage that starts to overflow in the face of a public health crisis. Goop. Alex Jones. Snake oil. Homeopathy. Price gouging. Levels of understanding and respect for the severity of the current pandemic across age groups.
EpidemiologyR0, or basic reproduction number. Vulnerable sub-populations. Prisons. Social distancing. Hoarding toilet paper and… meat? The nipah virus.
Human behaviourSocial distancing. Hoarding steak and toilet paper.
EpidemiologyHistorical pandemics. Rate of spead and pandemic reach in the premodern and modern worlds. Propaganda and the “Spanish Flu” of 1918. Wildlife as natural disease reservoirs. Wildlife farming and infectious disease overflow. Disease-spread mitigation. Getting germs in your holes Wash your hands!
- Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center: JHU.edu
- Why new diseases keep appearing in China by Vox: YouTube
- Medlife Crisis: YouTube
- Planet Money Podcast: NPR.org
- The Indicator from Planet Money: NPR.org
- Self-experimentation in medicine: Wikipedia
281 episodes
Manage episode 256506022 series 1500788
Our world is on the brink of some possibly extreme unpleasantness. Known unknowns threats to civilization. Humanity is bad at planning for statistically-likely-but-not-definite disaster.
BullshitThe anti-scientific garbage that starts to overflow in the face of a public health crisis. Goop. Alex Jones. Snake oil. Homeopathy. Price gouging. Levels of understanding and respect for the severity of the current pandemic across age groups.
EpidemiologyR0, or basic reproduction number. Vulnerable sub-populations. Prisons. Social distancing. Hoarding toilet paper and… meat? The nipah virus.
Human behaviourSocial distancing. Hoarding steak and toilet paper.
EpidemiologyHistorical pandemics. Rate of spead and pandemic reach in the premodern and modern worlds. Propaganda and the “Spanish Flu” of 1918. Wildlife as natural disease reservoirs. Wildlife farming and infectious disease overflow. Disease-spread mitigation. Getting germs in your holes Wash your hands!
- Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center: JHU.edu
- Why new diseases keep appearing in China by Vox: YouTube
- Medlife Crisis: YouTube
- Planet Money Podcast: NPR.org
- The Indicator from Planet Money: NPR.org
- Self-experimentation in medicine: Wikipedia
281 episodes
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