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SCOUT· 59%27m·2025-07-21·Science#425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Sam Harris speaks with Marc Lipsitch about pandemic preparedness. They discuss what we learned from Covid, loss of trust in institutions, how to effectively communicate scientific information in the current media landscape, vaccine hesitancy, the safety of mRNA vaccines, the origins of Covid, gain-of-function…
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