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	<title><![CDATA[There are games]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><br />The spread of Corrupted Blood, and&nbsp;<a style="font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;" href="https://www.mywowgold.com/Wow-classic-Gold.html">classic wow gold</a> also the player's behavioral changes to this, captured the attention of epidemiologist Dr. Nina Fefferman, who had been a World of Warcraft player in the time of this incident. Fefferman reached out to her colleague Dr. Eric Lofgren. In 2007, both released a paper that detailed their findings, including complex models of human behaviour during a pandemic. Fefferman claims the episode has helped inform her current research into predictive modeling about covid-19.</p><p>"What I really do is research all of the elements of infectious disease outbreaks which help us prepare for pandemics," explained Fefferman, a mathematical biologist. "We really saw the full gamut of behaviors we find in the real world reflected in the player characters throughout Corrupted Blood."</p><p>Dr. Dmitri Williams, an associate professor in USC who was also playing World of Warcraft during the Corrupted Blood incident, questions if Fefferman's findings are legitimate mirrors to real-life behavior.</p><p>"There are games where you are invited to&nbsp;<a style="font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;" href="https://www.mywowgold.com/Wow-classic-Gold.html">cheap wow gold classic</a> behave in a way that you would never behave offline," Williams stated. "You must know [the sport ], play it and understand the culture so that you can make these kind of determinations that, yeah, this is a pretty good proxy"</p>]]></description>
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