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58: Recipes for Future Plagues | Kevin Esvelt

Feb 28, 20222 hr 55 minTranscript available on Metacast
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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.