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For obvious reasons, pandemics are pretty hot news right now.
And it seems every few weeks, we see headlines about a possible new outbreak of potentially pandemic proportions.
Thankfully, we haven't seen any new disease outbreaks yet, but it doesn't mean it won't happen sometime in the future.
So what should we make of recent stories revealing a jump in avian influenza cases in 2021, and how likely is it that we'll be facing down a new pandemic anytime soon?
Also on today's show:
* A bit of a deeper dive into a recent article/story in the British Medical Journal, alleging issues with a trial site and its phase three trials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
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For obvious reasons, pandemics are pretty hot news right now.
And it seems every few weeks, we see headlines about a possible new outbreak of potentially pandemic proportions.
Thankfully, we haven't seen any new disease outbreaks yet, but it doesn't mean it won't happen sometime in the future.
So what should we make of recent stories revealing a jump in avian influenza cases in 2021, and how likely is it that we'll be facing down a new pandemic anytime soon?
Also on today's show:
* A bit of a deeper dive into a recent article/story in the British Medical Journal, alleging issues with a trial site and its phase three trials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

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