Annie Jacobsen
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first heard Jul 2026
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But pneumonic plague is the variant, the advanced variant of bubonic plague, whereby it enters the lungs and it becomes airborne.
And looping back to that select one, the tier one select agent list that the CDC is so concerned about, pneumonic plague is among the top threats on that list because it is airborne, because it is so deadly.
COVID had a case fatality rate of 1%, meaning one out of every hundred people who had the disease
died.
Pneumonic plague has a case fatality rate of 100% if you don't get antibiotics within 24 hours.
One would hope.
And that is where there is certainly a bit of an analogy, a parallel, if you will, with nuclear weapons.
which the idea is deterrence will keep nuclear war from ever happening.
No one would be crazy enough to launch a nuclear weapon.
And for decades now, the idea behind biological weapons, illegal as they are, is that same fundamental.
No one would be crazy enough to release this kind of a pathogen.
But that does not rule out
an accident or a lab leak, which is why that is precisely the spark which begins the scenario of my new book.
Well, you're referring to what is a national syndromic surveillance system.
It's a big mouthful that really means the CDC is monitoring outbreaks as they occur in close to real time across the United States.
meaning 7,200 emergency rooms, urgent care facilities, hospital.
These are all linked to the CDC so that they can report outbreaks or suspicious disease infections as they are occurring so that the CDC can use computational science to be able to monitor these events.
But like any system, there are holes in the system.
You know, I think the point of this for me is not panic per se, it's pressure.
And pressure begins by people having conversations like you and I are having right here.
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