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Laurie Garrett: What can we learn from the 1918 flu pandemic?
An interesting theme in this talk is repeated acknowledgment of how little we know about even simplest facts (for example, whether washing your hands is at all useful against flu pandemic). The discipline of not making up unwarranted certainty.