Annie Jacobsen

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"They go to the CEOs of these AI companies and say, 'I was able to make Claude do this. I was able to make ChatGPT do this.' And the CEO goes, 'Oh my god,' and changes it."

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"Don't forget your morals and hope you stocked Pedialyte. That's what the FEMA director told me."

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"28 Days Later was based on that. It was called Rage. It was something they were doing with chimpanzees and a chimpanzee bites somebody and it spreads. Those are great films."

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"There's a medical countermeasure called ZMapp, and it was given to two nurses in Texas, for example, that I write a little vignette in the book about it. And that was a medical countermeasure, and they did not die. But the mutated version of Ebola that we're seeing right now in the Congo, ZMapp doesn't work because it's a variant."

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"There's a famous book called The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and an Italian notary and he writes about what it was like at that time. We have the translation. It's really interesting to read. I refer to it so that readers feel like — I mean, it gives you a fabulous imaginative version of it, but it's actually very scientific because that's human nature."

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"After 9/11, the CDC created a nationwide syndromic surveillance system called BioSense. So you have more than 7,000 hospitals, urgent care facilities, emergency rooms feeding information to the CDC in real time about an outbreak so that an outbreak stops before it becomes an epidemic, before it becomes a pandemic."

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"The CDC went into a partnership with Lysol. Lysol disappeared from the supply chain. We now know that fomite transmission — getting something off a surface — accounted for only 1 in 10,000 cases of COVID."