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Podcast: The Jim Rutt Show
Episode: Currents 047: Samuel Scarpino on the Epidemiology of Covid-19
Description: Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Samuel Scarpino on Covid-19 epidemiology and disease surveillance...
Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Samuel Scarpino on Covid-19 epidemiology and disease surveillance. They discuss some of the biggest surprises in Covid research since its beginning, the importance of understanding the evolutionary trajectory of the virus, the oscillation pattern of case rates, wastewater-based epidemiology, current bottlenecks in gene sequencing, the latest evidence about Omicron's contagiousness & severity, obstacles created by HIPAA protections, how to build a data system that will be ready for the next pandemic, the role of interdisciplinary complex-systems research centers, a disaster scenario...