The attachment is an excerpt from Netflix Explained CoronaVirus. It is a two-page note I dictated. Green highlights indicate phrases I want to remember for the future use.
Phrases to remember:
- That same kind of fluke happened on a farm in Kansas
- It was unlike anything else in history.
- For a disease to become a pandemic
- It has to find an extraordinary balance of contagiousness and deadliness.
- You can think of a disease on those two scales.
- The infectious diseases that have been humanity’s foes.
- Somewhere in this range was the 1918 combination.
- It was airborne, meaning the virus could hang in the air, infecting anyone who inhaled it.
- Medical record-keeping was not great at that time.
- That was nothing compared to smallpox.
- There is Ebola, which is even deadlier.
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