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Coronavirus market crash and financial crisis

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April 26, 2020

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COVID-19: When 900 Bytes Shut Down the World

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April 26, 2020

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Business and Finance, Information Theory, Medicine and Health, Military}

The COVID-19 virus contains about as much information as a sticker in WhatsApp. Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks and Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón explore a dreadful truth: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.”