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Or, If I Take That Same Auditorium And I Make It Much Bigger And Put More Space Between Seats, It'll Be Quieter Because It's Much Harder When You're Not In Physical Contact With People To Spread A Virus From Person-to-person, Right? There Are All Sorts Of Patterns That We See In Epidemiology That Help Us Understand Why Something Spreads.

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Or, If I Take That Same Auditorium And I Make It Much Bigger And Put More Space Between Seats, It'll Be Quieter Because It's Much Harder When You're Not In Physical Contact With People To Spread A Virus From Person-to-person, Right? There Are All Sorts Of Patterns That We See In Epidemiology That Help Us Understand Why Something Spreads.

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