And other do’s and don’ts from a public health expert.
We know what pandemics look like in the movies: sudden-onset symptoms, rapid transmission, chaos at hospitals and ports of entry … and, pretty soon, roving bands of armed survivors looting burned-out gas stations and picking off the weak. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Chances are the next pandemic will start out slow-moving. And there’s a lot we can do to prevent it from turning apocalyptic., Charles Duhigg spoke to someone who studies pandemics for a living: Dr.
It’d be a big mistake to not do anything because then that person is going to go around and infect other people. And then it grows, and then the risk to your family is higher. So it’s in everyone’s interest to try and get sick people cared for and not walking around infecting others. Back in 1918 when we had the, people knew that they were exposed to risk, and we didn’t have medicines or vaccines to take care of people. People were treated in very large settings.
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