happening, you have massive global events. And that was a big concern to me. So we started raising the alarm and unfortunately people didn't pay much attention. In 2014, there was the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which was eventually 10 times as large as a previous Ebola outbreaks. But actually other people were predicting that it was going to be much, much larger. They thought it would go to burnout with 10 million people dead. But I was thinking how one could stop outbreaks. And the idea which comes from complex system science is that you can go to a larger scale. So instead of thinking about individuals as transmitting the disease, you can think about communities as transmitting the disease and you can treat communities as infected. And the trick is then you go into the communities and you detect people that are in the early stages of symptoms and you stop them from transmitting, you isolate them and that's actually what was done. So in West Africa, people created teams in (11/41)
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