#425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?

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Oh, nice. Well, I am a big fan of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics that, uh, that's a witch of the mouthful, which you run at Harvard. Before we um jump into the topic at hand, can can you summarize your scientific background? Sure. I was trained as an evolutionary biologist and mathematical biologist.

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