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58: Recipes for Future Plagues | Kevin Esvelt

The After On Podcast
Feb 28, 2022•2 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 58
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USAID’s new “DEEP VZN” program aims to discover new pandemic-grade viruses, then broadcast their genomes to the world, according to MIT evolutionary engineer Kevin Esvelt. He estimates that 30,000 people in dozens of countries could then easily assemble them.

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