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John Moalem

American journalist and author; longtime contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, now obituary writer at The Wall Street Journal.

Aug 21, 2026

36:33
It's probably happened dozens and dozens more times that we don't know about.
36:36
about.So the spillover is not a highly improbable event.
36:42
In most cases, those spillovers have not resulted in extended chains of disease in humans, let alone global pandemic.
36:50
In a few cases, they've resulted in localized disease, and in one case, the sweepstakes-winning strain, HIV-1 group M, has infected 60 million humans around the world and killed 30 million.

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42:48
Oh.
42:48
Hi comma five.
42:49
You know, he has small hands.
42:50
He likes to put them up against the big hands of the five guys, and it was years later that he started playing college basketball at Murray State and started high-fiving all his teammates.

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