What will life look like on the other side?
If you've completed Chapters 1 and 2 of The Story of You, you've already learned about our fraught history with microbes—how indiscriminately we feared them, though 99% are harmless to us, and many critical.
Now, history is at risk of repeating itself. With the world's attention laser-focused on a single pathogenic microbe, will we once again fear them all?
Meet us on Zoom @ 12pm PT / 3pm ET TODAY for this week's
#LearnFromHome Office Hours—a conversation between Dr. Martin Blaser (microbiologist, infectious diseases expert, author of Missing Microbes, and an honoree on TIME's 2015 list of 100 Most Influential People) and our-cofounders wildraja and arakatz. We'll explore this new world of COVID-19, what reopening may look like, the race to a vaccine, the impact of a pandemic on our microbiomes, and how the fear of one microbe may give way to the growing threat of antibiotic resistance and the next wave of superbugs.
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