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And that is reflected in the epidemic that we have today.
And the reason that I can say that is because we're now in an epidemic of fear like one I've never seen and hope never to see again.
About 12 years ago, there was a story published, a horrible story, that linked the epidemic of autism to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine shot.
Now, the most mindless epidemic we're in the middle of right now is this absurd battle between proponents of genetically engineered food and the organic elite.
This is the most devastating epidemic of our time.
This was in the 90s during the peak of the HIV epidemic, before there were any ARVs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
So many children have been orphaned by the epidemic that grandmothers have taken the place of parents, and a lot of children had been born with HIV.
Since the HIV epidemic, hospitals have been struggling to manage regular HIV treatment records for increasing volumes of patients.
We are living with a global epidemic of injustice, but we've been choosing to ignore it.
It had become trendy to speak about the "obesity epidemic."
And, along with my collaborator, James Fowler, we began to wonder whether obesity really was epidemic and could it spread from person to person like the four people I discussed earlier.
A lot of complexity, a lot is happening just in this 30-year period that includes the obesity epidemic.
And bed nets have an effect on the epidemic, but you're never going to make it extinct with bed nets.
However, the reasons for our current epidemic are much more complicated and may foreshadow a global resurgence of HIV.
Despite the remarkable progress we've made in reversing the epidemic, the truth is that we are just a few viral mutations away from disaster.
We need to think of HIV not as a single virus that we think we've figured out, but as a collection of rapidly evolving and highly unique viruses, each of which can set off the next deadly epidemic.
A cancer epidemic caused by chemicals in the environment was going to shorten our lives.
And in the '90s, we have the terrible HIV epidemic that takes down the life expectancy of the African countries.
And if everything goes smoothly, one to two weeks from now you'll know where the epidemic was today.
But what I'd like to show you today is a means by which we might get not just rapid warning about an epidemic, but also actually early detection of an epidemic.
And the reason for this shape is that at the very beginning, let's say one or two people are infected, or affected by the thing and then they affect, or infect, two people, who in turn affect four, eight, 16 and so forth, and you get the epidemic growth phase of the curve.
And this difference in time between the two is the early detection, the early warning we can get, about an impending epidemic in the human population.
We took 1,300 randomly selected undergraduates, we had them nominate their friends, and we followed both the random students and their friends daily in time to see whether or not they had the flu epidemic.
The epidemic in the friends group has shifted to the left, over here.
By monitoring the friends group, we could get 16 days advance warning of an impending epidemic in this human population.
Now, in addition to that, if you were an analyst who was trying to study an epidemic or to predict the adoption of a product, for example, what you could do is you could pick a random sample of the population, also have them nominate their friends and follow the friends and follow both the randoms and the friends.
Among the friends, the first evidence you saw of a blip above zero in adoption of the innovation, for example, would be evidence of an impending epidemic.
And that, as indicated by the white line, occurred 46 days before the peak of the epidemic.
So this would be a technique whereby we could get more than a month-and-a-half warning about a flu epidemic in a particular population.
The slope of the epidemic curve is approaching now, in November.
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