What Jared Diamond thinks about epidemiology
Geographer at the University of California, Los Angeles; author of Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), Collapse (2005) and Upheaval (2019).
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2 dated positions, 2020, in their own words. Our reading of what Jared Diamond has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsit's clear that all countries have got to deal with this problem, because if 215 countries get rid of COVID and the 216th country still has it, it will infect the rest of the world. This is a world problem that requires a world solution.
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Their wordsInstead, I see it as a sound, public health policy to close borders, which sometimes coincides with state borders, sometimes with national borders.