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Eric Fish, DVM, PhD's avatar

"Progress is not just about the frontier with new technology and invention, but also about how much we can do with what we already know, even now" This is *SUCH* an important point! That the biggest successes or failures lie with implementation, logistics, and getting a sizable fraction of the public to ADOPT the intervention is frequently overlooked. A great example is in vaccines: It doesn't matter if we are able to produce highly effective vaccines with new mRNA or other technology if large segments of the public reject advice to take it

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Fascinating. My father is a Third World immigrant born in the 1940s. Several of his siblings died during infancy or childhood including his twin, and seven survived into adulthood. I’ve known this from early age, so the childhood mortality information is not so shocking to me. What I never thought of is how many of his friends were still around with him in his 70s and 80s., And how different things would have been if he had reached his age in a different era. How lonely must it have been to be old!

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