#149 - Dr Eric Feigl-Ding - Just How Bad Is COVID-19?
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Dr Eric Feigl-Ding is an Epidemiologist at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.
The Coronavirus outbreak has been the biggest news story of 2020. For every story claiming it's an oncoming apocalypse, there's another saying it's just the flu. Today we get to hear from one of the world's most central voices on Covid-19.
Expect to learn, whether Covid-19 could have been bioengineered, how the virus is transmitted, strategies to protect yourself, the dangers if exposed, what the actual mortality rate looks like, whether containment is a viable strategy, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to Modern Wisdom. You may be noticing a slight change in the audio |
| 0:07.2 | quality today and that is because I'm recording on my brand new mic setup. Jason Calacanis |
| 0:13.6 | gave me a bit of shit about what I was recording on a few weeks ago so I thought, fuck it, |
| 0:19.3 | why not spend some of those hard earned YouTube ad revenue dollars on a brand new setup. |
| 0:24.1 | So here it is. Increasingly here from some of the listeners that they use the show to fall asleep |
| 0:31.5 | on a night time, I'm not sure how much of a compliment it is to hear that people use the |
| 0:38.1 | show to fall asleep. I'm hoping that it's the dulcet sultry soft tones that are actually |
| 0:46.3 | sending them to sleep from me and the guest rather than the content itself. But time will |
| 0:52.2 | and with this brand new lovely warm mic, if you hear it fall asleep then maybe this will |
| 0:58.7 | happen even quicker now. Anyway, onto today's guest. Dr Eric Feigelding is an epidemiologist at |
| 1:06.9 | Harvard and he is an advisor to the World Health Organization. So as you can imagine at the moment, |
| 1:12.8 | he is in the thick of it dealing with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak and very fortunately, |
| 1:20.1 | I managed to get him in between recording for BBC Iran and ABC news interviews. I managed |
| 1:25.7 | to get him for a full hour, sit him down and ask him everything that I wanted to know about the |
| 1:29.8 | outbreak from where it's come from, what the dangers are, what we can expect moving forward, |
| 1:35.0 | signs that you could be infected without having to get tested. Prevention is containment going |
| 1:40.6 | to work quarantining strategies, everything. So hopefully this will clear up some of the questions |
| 1:47.0 | you have about the current situation, although it's not conclusive, it does give us the information |
| 1:53.6 | which is the best that we can ask for at the moment. Please welcome the wise and wonderful Dr Eric |
| 1:59.9 | Feigelding. Oh yeah, PS, if you are new here, don't forget to hit the subscribe button, |
| 2:05.2 | you will receive one episode every Monday and every Thursday with the world's most fascinating |
| 2:11.0 | humans delivered directly to your listening device of choice. If we're about to face a global |
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