Annie Jacobsen

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473 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Talking Scared · 289 – Annie Jacobsen & Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

COVID was airborne. voice-verified

COVID had a case fatality rate of 1%. voice-verified

One in 100 people died. voice-verified

And that doesn't include God knows how many people were asymptomatic carriers, so they never even got sick. voice-verified

With the pathogen I choose for biological war scenario, voice-verified

being pneumonic plague, it has a case fatality rate of 100%. voice-verified

If you get it and you don't get antibiotics into your lungs within 24 hours, you die. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

Okay, so I almost used rabies right in the scenario Because rabies and rabies is a virus Plague is a bacteria and for readers to know that's why it's called a pathogen Because a pathogen is a is a dangerous, you know A pathogen is a virus or a bacteria unlike a germ which germs can you know? voice-verified

also you have germs in your gut which you need to have and voice-verified

So I considered rabies because it also has a case fatality rate of 100% if you don't get medical countermeasures. voice-verified

So in the modern world, if I get pneumonic plague and I immediately am given antibiotics, there is a very good chance I won't die. voice-verified

Not certainty. voice-verified

And with rabies, if you immediately take the countermeasures, vaccines, et cetera, there's almost 100% chance that you won't die. voice-verified

But in the horrible world of biological weapons, one of the three components, hypervirulence, they want to make something more virulent. voice-verified

You can't get more virulent than pneumonic plague or rabies, okay? voice-verified

Human-to-human transmission, you can goose that up so that it's more airborne. voice-verified

Rabies is not airborne. voice-verified

And then finally, the medical countermeasures, if you can defeat it. voice-verified

So those are the three sort of terrors that you're up against. voice-verified

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