Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Definitions:
  • SARS-CoV-2 is the formal name of the virus (it’s a member of the coronavirus family of viruses)
  • COVID-19 is the official name of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2
• In the U.S., COVID-19’s doubling rate (how fast cases double) seems to be ~7.4 days
• ~89% of infected individuals exhibit fevers
• SARS-CoV-2 seems to spread asymptotically
• “This could be as much as an accelerant for biomedicine as the internet was for software” – Balaji Srinivasan
• Second-order effects of THE COVID-19 outbreak:
  • Massive supply chain shocks
  • People will begin to view remote work not as an auxiliary, but as a primary. EVERY job going forward must be remote-capable.
• Let’s say 100 people in San Francisco have the coronavirus (San Francisco has a population of 880k). Now, imagine you have an office with 1,000 people. Given this, there’s about a 10% chance someone in that office is infected (if there are 1,000 people in San Francisco with the virus, the probability that someone’s infected jumps to 60%).

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This special pop-up episode explores Covid-19, with Balaji Srinivasan. Balaji is one of the more thought-provoking, interesting, and multi-disciplinary thinkers I know and we do a deep dive, including possible second and third-order consequences.

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