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Coronavirus: Your Questions Answered

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Intelligence Squared

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4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

How can we protect ourselves from coronavirus? How long will the current situation last? Why has the death rate been so high in Italy? And why have some other countries apparently been more successful at reducing the spread of the virus? This episode is from a live online event that we staged on Friday March 27, and it features science broadcaster Xand Van Tulleken, epidemiologist David Heymann, economist Linda Yueh and disease control expert Bharat Pankhania. Stay tuned for more information about online Intelligence Squared events. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Show The old is always is 18 and 5 years old

0:15.0

30 years old, lost to men and culture in happen and

0:19.0

be right for a hair house for the wrongs.

0:22.0

Fly bake. No,h, then we've up the next

0:25.0

of love-heancer group ponged careers.

0:29.0

Maybe 30 or 20 years ago, a Saudi might have said

0:32.0

I'm Muslim and I'm Arab and I'm Saudi. Now they might say I'm

0:36.8

Saudi and I'm Arab and I'm Muslim. You know they're trying to radically refashion their

0:41.2

country and they need help from the best experts in the world.

0:44.0

Do you want to have your country's people be disqualified from that because of some essentially

0:48.5

antiquated point of view about how countries work together?

0:52.1

In recent months it can feel like Saudi Arabia is

0:54.7

intent on buying the world. It's bought up much of golf, sports teams, many of the

0:59.3

globe's best soccer players to its own domestic league, and it owns huge chunks of many of the biggest companies on the planet.

1:06.0

But Saudi Arabia is not just on a shopping spree.

1:09.0

The ones insular oil-rich kingdom is transforming into a major diplomatic and military player, a pivotal

1:15.8

actor in the energy transition and looks set to post high-end cultural events like the FIFA

1:20.9

World Cup.

1:21.9

You know they know that buying a football club immediately brings you a billboard into a global game

1:28.0

that allows you to completely reposition yourself or rebrand yourself.

1:32.0

It feels like we're entering the era of the Saudi

1:34.2

project. But what exactly is the kingdom trying to achieve and will it succeed? Coming soon from

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