Episode 1244 • • 1:25:57 - 1:36:00
1244: Gain of Function
Viral Deterioration, Italy Direct Flights and Media Distortion
The theory of viral deterioration suggests that as a lab-created virus passes through a population, it reverts to a "wild type" and becomes less virulent. This is used to explain why early outbreaks in Northern Italy and New York—linked to direct flights from Wuhan—were more deadly than later cases in the western United States.