Preparing for the Pandemic: 'The Window Is Closing'

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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

4.6 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Empty grocery store shelves, Purell selling at $100 a bottle, and handwashing that would make any mother proud. Uncertainty about coronavirus dominates daily lives today all around the globe. But along with the many unknowns come solid reasons for hope, if the right steps are taken immediately. Acclaimed health expert Laurie Garrett argues that the window to mitigate the pandemic's effect is closing, but there is still much governments and individuals can do to curb the impact.

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0:00.0	I'm sorry, America, but our spending on public health has been decreasing for decades, and it's
0:06.0	woeful. And no, we don't have the best public health system in the world.
0:12.8	Hello and welcome to the G0 World podcast. Here you'll find extended versions of the interviews
0:18.0	from my show on public television. I'm Ian Bremmer.
0:21.2	And today, the biggest crisis since the financial meltdown
0:24.6	and a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist to help us get through it.
0:28.8	I have Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague and Betrayal of Trust,
0:33.3	The Collapse of Global Public Health.
0:35.8	Sounds intense.
0:37.3	Let's get to it.
0:45.2	Lord Garrett, who is your prize-winning author of The Coming Plague,
0:49.1	expert of all of the things that we are dealing with right now,
0:51.8	really good to be with you.
0:53.6	Thank you, Ian. So the first thing I should mention is that we are dealing with right now, really good to be with you. Thank you, Ian.
0:54.4	So the first thing I should mention is that we are sitting more than six feet away from each other.
1:01.0	Right.
1:01.7	Should we even be doing this right now?
1:03.8	Is it okay?
1:04.4	Is it safe?
1:05.0	I mean, I think people would like to know.
1:07.5	Well, I think there's a lot of good questions to ask about whether or not it's safe for you to leave your home or wherever it is you're hunkered down right now.
1:15.9	It's just very, very important. You do everything possible to minimize the proximity to other people so that if you can move about and never get more than five or six feet from another person, you're
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