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Data has been an essential public health tool since at least the seventeenth century.
Data has been an essential public health tool since at least the seventeenth century. Helping the world understand and mitigate the spread of disease, data has helped us make sense of the threats to our collective health.
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Episode 2 Preview
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Data has been an essential public health tool since at least the seventeenth century. Helping the world understand and mitigate the spread of disease, data has helped us make sense of the threats to our collective health.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSomething was killing people.
This new disease came along.
Battling a new pathogen is like a chess game.
You're using public health and social measures to shape the way the board will unfold.
Collecting data and analyzing it has probably saved many lives as the vaccines and the antibiotics.
The main problem facing our domestic public health infrastructure is that it's badly outdated.
When you ignore public health, a lot of people are going to die.
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 12s | How the 1854 cholera outbreak led to the birth of the modern public health system. (1m 12s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 2m 57s | Steven Johnson describes the origins of cholera and how interventions stopped the spread. (2m 57s)
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