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welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Friday, October 15th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

A proposal for approaching this next phase of the pandemic less like an epidemiologist

and more like an engineer.

Plus new findings from the Mars Perseverance rover that has NASA breathing

a sigh of relief, and product placement in novels added without the author's knowledge. It's a real

thing that I hope remains in the past. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

So a paper published in August by epidemiologists and steaditicians reflecting on

shortcomings of the pandemic response from the public health sector proposes a new approach,

one that looks a lot more like engineering than epidemiology. Essentially,

quoting the MIT Technology Review, focusing on pragmatic problem solving with an iterative,

adaptive strategy to make things work, end quote. During the pandemic, the paper's authors felt

that, quote, the right balance between pure research results and

pragmatic solutions proved alarmingly elusive, end quote.

Epidemiologist and co-author of the paper, John Zellner from the University of Michigan,

noted that there were, quoting the MIT Tech Review, missing links between the ideas and

tools epidemiologists proposed and the world

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