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Critical Slowing Down

When will epidemics begin and end, speed up or slow down? Figuring that out is the job of researchers like Dr. John Drake, Distinguished Research Professor in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. April talks to him about the phenomenon of critical slowing down, a tool used to track disease spread.

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