Inoculation

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Technology

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Can we protect ourselves from future outbreaks? COVID-19 isn't the first pandemic, and likely not the last. This hour, TED speakers share lessons from past pandemics and what they mean for our future. Guests on the show include science journalist Laura Spinney, anthropologist Heidi Larson, ecologist and animal-borne disease researcher Daniel Streicker, and physician economist Anupam Jena. We also hear some personal stories on coping with COVID-19 from TED speakers Susan Pinker, Leticia Gasca, Dixon Chibanda, and Dawn Wacek.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Manou Shire. You're gonna notice this episode sounds a little different than usual.
0:05.2	I'm trying to stay safe by recording myself at home and we are so grateful to our guests for recording themselves at home too and
0:13.4	helping us bring this episode to you.
0:20.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:24.2	Each week ground-breaking Ted Talks.
0:26.7	Our job now is to dream big. Deliver it at Ted Conferences.
0:29.9	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:32.0	Around the world. To understand who we are.
0:34.9	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:40.0	You just don't know what you're gonna find.
0:42.0	Challenge you. We truly have to ask ourselves why is it noteworthy?
0:45.2	And even change you. I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:48.5	Yes. Do you feel that way? Ideas worth spreading.
0:52.6	From Ted and NPR.
0:58.4	I'm Manou Shire. And to start the show, I want to travel back for a moment.
1:03.1	To a time you've probably been hearing about a lot lately.
1:06.5	To the 1918 Spanish flu.
1:09.7	Yes, so I mean just to give you a tiny bit of perspective.
1:13.4	Around 1818 million people are thought to have died in the First World War.
1:18.4	And the numbers we work with today though, they are uncertain. Are between 50 and 100 million dead for the Spanish flu.
1:25.9	Which means that the Spanish flu probably killed more than either World War.
1:29.9	And possibly more than both of them put together.
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