Hello friends, welcome back to Modern Wisdom. You may be noticing a slight change in the audio

quality today and that is because I'm recording on my brand new mic setup. Jason Calacanis

gave me a bit of shit about what I was recording on a few weeks ago so I thought, fuck it,

why not spend some of those hard earned YouTube ad revenue dollars on a brand new setup.

So here it is. Increasingly here from some of the listeners that they use the show to fall asleep

on a night time, I'm not sure how much of a compliment it is to hear that people use the

show to fall asleep. I'm hoping that it's the dulcet sultry soft tones that are actually

sending them to sleep from me and the guest rather than the content itself. But time will

and with this brand new lovely warm mic, if you hear it fall asleep then maybe this will

happen even quicker now. Anyway, onto today's guest. Dr Eric Feigelding is an epidemiologist at

Harvard and he is an advisor to the World Health Organization. So as you can imagine at the moment,

he is in the thick of it dealing with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak and very fortunately,

I managed to get him in between recording for BBC Iran and ABC news interviews. I managed

to get him for a full hour, sit him down and ask him everything that I wanted to know about the

outbreak from where it's come from, what the dangers are, what we can expect moving forward,

signs that you could be infected without having to get tested. Prevention is containment going

to work quarantining strategies, everything. So hopefully this will clear up some of the questions

you have about the current situation, although it's not conclusive, it does give us the information

which is the best that we can ask for at the moment. Please welcome the wise and wonderful Dr Eric

Feigelding. Oh yeah, PS, if you are new here, don't forget to hit the subscribe button,

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