Ebola

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 13, 2020 by Balaji Srinivasan · across every show →

Everything said about Ebola, oldest first

Mar 13, 2020 bearish
Prediction Held up
Srinivasan: COVID-19 Total Hospitalizations and Deaths Will Exceed Ebola Due to Scale
“It's nowhere near as lethal as Ebola, but its scale is likely to be much higher than Ebola. And so the total number of people hospitalized or killed by it may be much larger.”
Balaji Srinivasan Mar 13, 2020 ▶ 21:48 #78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
Mar 13, 2020
Insight
Asymptomatic spread removes evolutionary pressure for COVID-19 to become less lethal
“Now, sometimes, often, viruses evolve to be less lethal and more contagious because, you know, like, if you, if it's like Ebola and somebody dies in a pool of blood, then, you know, they don't spread it very far, right? The Ebola virus actually sort of, it ki…”
Balaji Srinivasan Mar 13, 2020 ▶ 21:00 #78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
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