3 ways to prepare society for the next pandemic | Jennifer B. Nuzzo

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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What if we treated the risk of pandemics the same way we treat the risk of fires? In this eye-opening talk, infectious disease epidemiologist Jennifer B. Nuzzo unpacks how the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 sparked a cultural shift in how we defend against fires -- and explains why pandemics demand the same sort of reaction. She breaks down the data we need to gather when facing possible danger, the drills we need to ready ourselves and the defenses that could keep future threats at bay -- so next time, we're prepared.

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0:07.2	This is Ted Health.
0:08.2	I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerlier.
0:11.8	There's been a lot of talk these past two years about getting back to normal.
0:15.6	I get it.
0:16.6	We're all exhausted from being on high alert for a crisis with an indefinite ending.
0:21.3	In her talk from Ted Women 2021, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist Jennifer Nuzzo explains
0:27.1	why going back to the way things were circa 2019 would actually do more harm than good.
0:33.4	Taking us back to 1904, she describes how a lit cigarette left unattended, started
0:38.2	the Great Baltimore Fire, sparking a cultural shift in fire safety, and explains why pandemics
0:43.6	demand the same sort of reaction.
0:45.8	She shares three important measures we can take today that will build trust and make us
0:50.0	better equipped to respond when, not if, the next pandemic strikes.
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1:24.8	So I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist, and it used to be the case that when I would
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