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Is the Next Pandemic Inevitable? / Caroline Chen

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Today we have on Caroline Chen to discuss her ProPublica series, "Roots of an Outbreak" And the Question From Hell flies right towards its effulgent fulfillment.

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0:00.0

Oh, You're welcome Neil.

0:34.0

This is hell. Another end of the world is possible.

0:39.0

This is hell and the end of the world that we have all been facing for some time is the

0:46.8

world ending with viruses deadly diseases that have moved on from only being

0:51.2

epidemic a disease that affects a large number of people within a community,

0:55.2

population or a region, to becoming pandemic that is an epidemic that's spread over multiple countries or continents. both of which can begin with the disease being endemic,

1:07.0

which is something that belongs to a particular people or country.

1:10.7

But whatever stage the disease and its transmission and spread happened to be in,

1:15.0

researchers have been trying to determine their origins for a very, very long time.

1:21.0

This didn't start just with COVID-19. But at the beginning of the COVID-19

1:26.8

outbreak, some were saying that we were all epidemiologists now, that we all suddenly

1:32.4

became health-issue investigators with our own theories

1:36.2

and how exactly a virus was unleashed upon us that was infecting millions and leading to countless, literally countless deaths.

1:45.5

As a partisan issue in the United States and keep in mind it is not a partisan issue everywhere

1:50.8

in the world. It is in other countries like Canada, but not everywhere.

1:54.8

In places like Britain find it odd that it would be any kind of partisan debate.

2:00.0

One party decided COVID-19 originated in a live market in China spreading from animals to human beings which makes the disease seem like an

2:08.4

Isolated incident or event a fluke which had the added benefit of being bolstered by really ugly stereotypes about Chinese culture.

2:18.0

The other party insists that the virus was made in a Chinese lab which did exactly what they always wanted,

2:23.1

fueling hatred toward the other.

2:26.0

But what if both are wrong?

2:28.3

And worse yet short-sighted, especially

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