How we overcome infectious disease with a public health renaissance

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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Politics, News, Foreign Policy, News Commentary, Government, Geopolitics, International Relations, Ian Bremmer, Trump, Global Economy, Gzero World

4.7 • 830 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Former CDC chief Tom Frieden says he's stunned by how infectious COVID is compared to other diseases. The pandemic isn't over yet, he tells Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World podcast, thanks to long COVID plus the fact that we can't predict how the virus will play out in the future. Frieden's advice for everyone is to get vaxxed and boosted, to "keep yourself out of the hospital and, quite frankly, out of the morgue," since new variants could emerge, making the virus more deadly. He also shares his thoughts on why China needs to transition to "almost" zero-COVID, the post-pandemic need to invest more in public health, and whether we should worry about monkeypox. Until we put more money toward research, he adds, we won't be able to control infectious diseases — rather, they will continue to control us.

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0:00.0	We can't predict what will happen next with COVID,
0:04.0	but we can predict with absolute certainty
0:07.0	that either a new variant of COVID or another virus
0:11.0	is going to create another massive threat to world health in the future
0:15.0	that we can be much better prepared for.
0:18.0	Hello and welcome to the GZero World podcast.
0:23.7	This is where you'll find extended versions of my interviews on public television.
0:27.9	I'm Ian Bremmer.
0:29.0	And today, between cratering global markets, record-breaking inflation, a war in Ukraine,
0:33.7	and midterm elections in the United States, there's a lot dominating the headlines
0:38.5	these days. But hey, the fact that there is even other news in the papers today is a sign of
0:44.4	just how far the world has come since 2020 when a new virus entered our lives. The World Health
0:51.2	Organization estimates that more than 15 million people likely died as a result of COVID-19 in the first two years of the pandemic.
1:00.1	And while the coronavirus is no longer the only story in town, the global fight against the disease is far from over.
1:07.3	This week, I speak with Dr. Tom Frieden.
1:10.1	He's former director of the Centers for Disease Control
1:13.0	for a look at where we are today in our fight against the coronavirus. Let's do this.
1:22.6	The G0 World podcast is brought to you by our founding sponsor, First Republic.
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