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How to use statistics to prepare for the next pandemic

  • Written by R. Alexander Bentley, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
imageSocioeconomic and cultural data can help governments predict and slow the spread of the next pandemic.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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