320: Dennis Carroll | Planning an End to the Pandemic Era
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dennis Carroll is the former USAID director for pandemic influenza and emerging threats. He currently works with The Global Virome Project, an international initiative that seeks to proactively identify, prepare for, and stop viral threats before they become pandemics.
What We Discuss with Dennis Carroll:- What’s the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?
- Why the occurrence of a future flu epidemic is not a matter of if but when.
- Vaccine hesitancy (e.g., “anti-vax” hysteria) is one of the top 10 health threats in the entire world.
- What can we expect from — and how do we prepare for — a worst-case pandemic scenario, and how worried should we be about the current coronavirus threat?
- Why our incursions into wildlife populations expose humanity to greater health risks than ever before.
- And much more…
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| 0:41.5 | Today, world renowned expert on infectious disease, Dennis Carroll is here with us. |
| 0:46.1 | We're talking about influenza, both the seasonal flu and the big deal new and novel would |
| 0:50.3 | be plagues that are mostly plaguing your social media news feeds for now. |
| 0:54.3 | I'd love to have done this one in person, but in the skychases the flu around the world, |
| 0:57.6 | so maybe not. |
| 0:58.6 | We'll discuss why our incursions into wildlife populations expose humanity to greater health |
| 1:04.0 | risks than ever before and why something is mundane sounding as the flu is in all |
| 1:08.8 | likelihood. |
| 1:09.8 | The next global pandemic that will kill hundreds of millions of people, both at home and abroad. |
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