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🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Refrigerators do much more than store your groceries -- they're also vital to preserving and distributing vaccines. Illustrating the realities of (and threats to) global vaccine supply chains, technologist and TED Fellow Nithya Ramanathan describes how smart sensors placed in fridges that store medical supplies can provide crucial, real-time data and ensure people get the life-saving care they need.
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0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
0:07.0 | This is Ted Health, I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Unger, later. |
0:11.7 | Throughout the pandemic, we've heard about the daunting logistical challenges of delivering |
0:15.5 | vaccines to the right place at the right time. |
0:18.7 | From manufacturing to storage, there's a whole lot that goes into safe distribution |
0:22.7 | of life-saving equipment. |
0:24.5 | In her work as a technologist, Nithya Ramanaathan has observed small, but vital disconnects |
0:29.9 | between medical engineering supplies and the problems they're meant to solve. |
0:34.3 | From her 2021 Ted Monterey Talk, listen in as Nithya describes how real-time reporting |
0:39.7 | can improve the safety and equity of global vaccine delivery. |
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1:26.5 | groundwater was making people sick. |
1:29.9 | And I attracted some attention. |
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