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b'Contagion aside, coronavirus is a powerful little virus.\\xa0It has prompted a global experiment in behavior modification: elbow bumps instead of handshakes, hand sanitizer and mask shortages, a gyrating stock market.\\xa0\\nPragmatism motivates our behavior toward the spread of this virus, but so do fear and panic. In 1918, amplified fear made the Spanish Flu pandemic more deadly.\\xa0\\nCan we identify when we\\u2019re acting sensibly in the face of COVID-19, or when fear has hijacked our ability to think rationally and protect ourselves?\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\n Peter Hall\\xa0-\\xa0Professor of public health and health systems at the University of Waterloo\\n\\n\\nDavid DeSteno\\xa0-\\xa0Social psychologist and professor of psychology at Northeastern University\\n\\n\\nDavid Smith\\xa0-\\xa0Virologist and Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego\\n\\n\\nJohn Barry\\xa0- writer, adjunct faculty at the Tulane School of Tropical Medicine and author of\\xa0The Great Influenza; The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'