You Can Save Lives If You Flatten The Curve | Dr. Nicholas Christakis

The Rubin Report

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🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Dr. Nicholas Christakis (M.P.H., Public Health; M.D., Harvard) about what you need to know about the Coronavirus pandemic. The Coronavirus outbreak is still in its infancy in the US and Dr. Nicholas Christakis gives you the information you need to be able to navigate this constantly changing public health crisis. Dr. Nicholas Christakis explains how we can best fight Coronavirus. He shares how to effectively practice social distancing or as he prefers to call it physical distancing. He explains what flatten the curve means and why it can save many lives. Nicholas describes the ways in which you can most effectively reduce your risk of getting or transmitting COVID-19. He goes into detail of when you should consider going to a hospital and why you should avoid a hospital otherwise. Nicholas also shares what he believes are the best practices for schools to keep people safe whether those schools are closed already or will remain open. He outlines specific risk mitigation strategies that schools can implement to reduce the rate of transmission. Most importantly he provides vital information on Coronavirus prevention and what you need to do to keep you and your loved ones safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joining me today is a sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and
0:09.8	on the socio economic, bio-social and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health and longevity.
0:17.7	Nick Kristakis, welcome back to the Ruben report.
0:19.7	Thank you for having me, Dave.
0:21.5	I'm glad to have you back.
0:23.4	Wish we could be doing this live, but obviously we're practicing a little social distancing
0:27.6	right now.
0:29.9	With everything going on with Corona, I've been trying to find a wide array of people to
0:32.9	talk to.
0:33.9	You put out what I thought was a really fantastic Twitter thread.
0:38.5	I rarely send people to Twitter, but you put out a great Twitter thread that covered
0:42.4	this through all of the disciplines that I just read there in your bio, which are quite
0:46.7	extensive.
0:47.7	So let's just start one at a time.
0:49.9	The two things that people have heard the most about at the moment, social distancing
0:54.5	and flattening the curve.
0:56.0	Can you just explain both and why they're important right now?
0:58.9	Yeah, so the virus takes advantage of the fact that we are social animals, that we assemble
1:04.8	in groups, that we have friends, that we touch each other and hug each other.
1:09.8	And it uses those connections that we assemble ourselves into these networks.
1:13.5	It uses those connections as a highway to travel through our species.
1:18.9	And so the challenge for us right now is how to interrupt that highway, how to break the
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