Fighting Coronavirus | Larry Brilliant on Why We Need a Global Covid Response | 19

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

There are few people who have thought more about pandemics than epidemiologist Larry Brilliant. He worked with the World Health Organization to eradicate smallpox. He’s fought polio and blindness in India. And, in his 2006 TED Prize talk, he warned the audience that a pandemic was coming “within your children or your grandchildren's lifetime.”

He was right. What he couldn’t predict, though, was how mismanaged our response would be – and how quickly we’d set aside the lessons we learned defeating smallpox. As Larry tells Steven, “We have to work together… and we're not doing it so far.”

Watch Larry’s Ted Prize acceptance speech: https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_my_wish_help_me_stop_pandemics?language=en

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American innovations
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0:05.6	Download the app today.
0:16.8	From Wondery, I'm Stephen Johnson.
0:19.3	And this is Fighting Coronavirus.
0:30.0	Our previous episode was all about the worldwide effort
0:35.0	currently underway to come up with a vaccine for COVID-19.
0:39.0	After all, our lives can't go back to some semblance of normal
0:42.0	until we have such a vaccine.
0:44.0	But creating a vaccine is just one step in a much longer process
0:49.0	that will only be successful
0:51.0	and will be able to make a better choice
0:53.0	for the future of COVID-19.
0:55.0	And that's why we're here today.
0:57.0	We're here today to create a vaccine in record time
1:00.0	and to create a much longer process that will only be successful
1:05.0	if there is cooperation among organizations like the WHO
1:09.0	and governments worldwide.
1:11.0	While we might have the technology today to create a vaccine
1:14.0	in record time, the politics of our current era threatened
1:18.0	to complicate how well we disseminate it.
1:21.0	There are a few people who are in a better position to know what it takes
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