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Wilson Smart Take: How Mitigating Climate Change Will Help Us Avoid the Next Pandemic

April 21, 2022

On Earth Day, 2022, Alex Long, a Program Associate for the STIP program at the Wilson Center, talks about the connection between a changing climate and the increasing risk of pandemics.

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