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Podcast: The Vance Crowe Podcast
Episode: National Geographic Explorer & Population Geneticist Spencer Wells on Coronavirus
Description: "This is not only a financial downturn as big as the great depression... this not a pandemic as lethal as the flu pandemic... the only thing that rivals [Coronavirus] is the Black Plague, in the 17th Century"National Geographic Explorer in Residence and world renown population geneticist Spencer Wells joined Vance Crowe from his hideout in Indonesia where he has decided to wait out Coronavirus. We discuss if blood types matter, how past civilizations faced pandemics, when to lift the quarantine and what will happen if hunger spreads as a result of the disease (or the cure).