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We are in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic that has since affected so many lives around the world. It has been testing the economy, public health infrastructures, and even our personal relationships. In this episode, Bob Roark tackles this pressing matter with someone who has a great deal of expertise about it, Shawn Cupp, Ph.D. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/o-shawn-cupp-ph-d-13224b11/) , the professor of Force Sustainment and Management at the Army Command and General Staff College. Shawn helps us understand COVID-19, comparing and contrasting it to what we've had before and helping us know how it will continue to affect us. Gathering up some news as well as scientific data, he informs us of the latest findings and development in terms of the creation of a vaccine. Shawn then taps into the many industries that are suffering because of the Pandemic, showing us the far-reaching implications that this will inevitably teach us for the following years to come. --- Watch the episode here:[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA7MawLP7Tw[/embed] Listen to the podcast here:[smart_track_player url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/29ff829d-2291-43d1-a3e7-c0c5925a3c63/blp-shawn-cupp.mp3" title="COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Its History And Its Future With Shawn Cupp" image="http://businessleaderspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/BLP-SquareLogo-WhiteBlueBG1400x1400.png" background="default"] COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Its History And Its Future With Shawn CuppWe have (https://www.linkedin.com/in/o-shawn-cupp-ph-d-13224b11/) . He's a PhD. He's the professor of Force Sustainment and Management at the Army Command and General Staff College. Shawn, thank you so much for taking the time to be here. Thank you for having me. We're going to do a little bit of something different. We're going to talk about COVID-19. We're in the midst of it and Shawn has a great deal of expertise and thoughts on it. I thought I would turn it over to Shawn. When we talked about it was compare and contrast what we've had before and some of the history and some of your thoughts about that. There have been about thirteen different pandemics since the 1700s. The last major one that was worldwide was the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu that happened during the middle of World War I. It came from Kansas where I'm at. It went into Camp Funston and spread around the world. Historically, it was called the Spanish Flu because Spain was neutral during that fight and was the only one that would report on it. That has some significance now because China and some other news agencies are trying to blame people for what happened. We're in the midst of somewhat weaponizing information about blame. Who did what? Who started this? That is something significant that's going to happen in the outcome 3 to 5 years from now. We've also had a pandemic in Hong Kong and another flu in the late ‘50s and late ‘60s. Another pandemic was another H1N1 designated with swine, which was in 2009. Each of these viruses, at least Coronaviruses, you have to remember a few things about them. They don't need oxygen to live. They don't produce any products. They don't have to have any gender to reproduce. They are RNA-based, not DNA-based. When a water droplet that has COVID or SARS version two in it gets into your hands or you rub what we would call fomites like a computer screen or a door handle or a bag, you touch your mouth. That's why we talk about washing your hands all the time. You wash your hands, you get rid of the virus. Its only way to reproduce is to get into your lungs and change the RNA, DNA the next cell beside it. That's how it reproduces. When you cough or sneeze, then you expel that out. That's why we have the ten-foot social distance requirements that have been put out by the CDC. That's how you keep the virus moving from person to person. The other part of the science piece is the R0. How infectious is it? For example,...