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Welcome to a special extended edition of Prognosis Daily coronavirus.

I'm Jason Gail, a senior editor with Bloomberg News.

Now that the coronavirus has become a household name,

we want to take a deeper look into how pandemics spread.

If you want to learn more about what's happening day to day when it comes to the coronavirus,

be sure to check out our feed for our daily podcast. But on this episode, we're diving deep into the scary world of

pandemics. What are they exactly? Where do they come from? And why are they occurring more

frequently? We're going to meet some of the world's most experienced pandemic experts, the men and women

on the front lines of the battle to contain COVID-19 and other global scourges.

Dr Michael Ryan is like the chief firefighter of global health.

Few people are busier than this burly, affable Irishman.

Mike leads the emergencies program at the World Health Organization.

The United Nations Agency has provided specialist technical advice

and set guidelines and standards on international health matters since

1948 Mike is also the crisis manager of a United Nations team to address the pneumonia-causing

disease that erupted in China at the end of last year. COVID-19 triggered a global

health emergency and made coronavirus, the virus that causes it, a household name.

COVID-19 is the latest and possibly most important outbreak that Mike has ever tried to extinguish.

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