Butterfly of the Week, 4 May 2020: What's Worse - Disease, Response, or Experts?

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Here's Butterfly of the Week #6, a weekly event where we go live on Facebook to break down and discuss a contemporary topic, with viewer participation greatly encouraged.

On the menu this week - David discusses what is worse - COVID19, our response to it, or the clamour of experts surrounding it?

Link to the slides:
https://www.davidmartin.world/wp-cont...

8:02
Stat article on coronavirus research funding:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/10/f...

10:40
March 2, 2020 paper by Ralph Baric et al
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

11:32
Estimation of the Transmission Risk of the 2019-nCoV and Its Implication for Public Health Interventions.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3...

14:47
Washington University paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3...

17:45
Source of DARPA quote:
https://www.biocentury.com/article/30...

20:00
Remdesivir trial:
https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/remdesiv...

24:37
BFI paper: does social distancing matter?
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-pape...

28:25
Fact check on CDC patents:
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/soc...

30:49
Link to sources:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-persp...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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