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During the COVID-19 crisis world leaders might do well to consult a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia. In 2018, he developed a complex game called Pandemic.
Sandy Hausman reports on what that simulation showed.
What a 2018 Pandemic Simulation by UVA Discovered
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