Hidden Viruses And How To Prevent The Next Pandemic
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🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This is the focus of the NPR series "Hidden Viruses: How Pandemics Really Begin." In this episode, NPR's Ari Daniel takes us to Bangladesh, where researchers studied a dangerous virus called "Nipah" and how it spreads.
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| 0:00.0 | If you had to pick a specific day when it felt like COVID-19 first became really scary, |
| 0:07.0 | you might pick January 30th, 2020. |
| 0:10.8 | That was the day that Dr. Tedros Adinam-Gabriosus, director general of the World Health Organization, |
| 0:16.5 | made this announcement. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm declaring a public health emergency of international concern over the global outbreak |
| 0:24.9 | of novel coronavirus. |
| 0:28.4 | Three years later, it seems that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is near. |
| 0:33.4 | Here's President Biden speaking to CBS's 60 Minutes back in September. |
| 0:37.7 | The pandemic is over. |
| 0:39.9 | We still have a problem with COVID. |
| 0:41.8 | We're still doing a lot of work on it. |
| 0:44.6 | But the pandemic is over. |
| 0:46.6 | And just this week, the Biden administration informed Congress that it will formally end |
| 0:51.3 | the national COVID public health emergency on May 11th. |
| 0:55.2 | While some people may be very happy to hear that, Lawrence Gosten, a professor of global |
| 1:00.3 | health at Georgetown University, fears the announcement might cause some people to be |
| 1:05.3 | apathetic about COVID. |
| 1:06.9 | What I worry about most is public messaging. |
| 1:09.5 | When CDC now asks you to wear a mask or to get a booster, American eyes might roll. |
| 1:15.3 | And that can't be a good thing. |
| 1:17.3 | Other experts point out that there are other diseases with pandemic potential. |
| 1:22.3 | They are still out there. |
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