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Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak - Two minutes too late

  Many people chose to watch this documentary at the beginning of this new Coronavirus pandemic, during their lockdown. I didn’t. It didn’t seem the better choice for me; the daily news was enough. Now that we start to relax (should we?), the curiosity won, and I gave it a try.  I wasn’t exactly sure of what I was going to see, but I was glued to the screen since the first episode. In the middle of an actual pandemic, it looked a bit creepy—an accurate prediction of the future. First put aside by many people simply as a “documentary about the flu”, it is now one of the most-watched documentaries on Netflix .  Universal vaccine One of the things I liked the most was the idea of a universal vaccine for the flu. It would be great. It would change everything. So, why have we never heard of that team or their work? The flu virus has a lot of strains, and it is always changing. This would make it impossible to develop a single, universal vaccine, right? Yet, their results seem...