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We think of the state as having not only enormous scientific knowledge at its disposal, or access to scientific knowledge at its disposal, but also having a responsibility to provide a set of rules and the personnel to support enforcement of those rules in an effective way. And we really depend, I think legitimately, on public policy to set the terms of dealing with a disease. The 1918 influenza epidemic was really met by a series of ad hoc arrangements in which government played a role, and I think an increasingly important role, but a very limited role.
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