Yaneer Bar-Yam, physicist, mathematician and humanitarian, is a scientist with a lifelong mission: distilling complex problems down to their bare essence in order to find winning solutions. Whatever the crisis — war, famine, pestilence, hurricanes, or pandemics such as COVID-19 — Yaneer knows that miscalculating the root cause of problems invariably results in flawed, often tragic, outcomes.
As COVID-19 cases explode around the U.S. and the world, with some nations locking down yet again, he warns that lockdowns alone aren’t enough. Communities also need a proven strategy to emerge as Green Zones, or areas without community transmission.
