Taming Covid and Preventing the Next Pandemic, with Mark Honigsbaum and Sir David King

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared ------ In this week's episode we brought together two of Britain’s most esteemed experts on global pandemics to discuss what we got wrong about the virus and how we can learn from those mistakes going forward. Drawing on examples from history and scientific research, medical historian Mark Honigsbaum and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the U.K Government Sir David King, outlined the measures that need to be put in place, at both national and international levels, to end the pandemic and prevent this kind of catastrophe from ever happening again. The event was chaired by Manveen Rana, host of Stories of Our Times, a podcast from The Times. To buy Mark Honigsbaum's book click here: https://amzn.to/2FalGYn To listen to Manveen Rana's podcast click here:https://play.acast.com/s/storiesofourtimes -------------------------- Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on our new online platform. Just like at our real-life events, you’ll be able to put your questions to our speakers, vote in live polls and interact with other members of the audience. Your subscription will give you access to multiple events featuring the world’s top thinkers and opinion formers, including Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, Clive Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Meera Syal and Paloma Faith. For a full list of Intelligence Squared+ events and to subscribe, click here: https://bit.ly/2yfYIfm Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this week's episode of
0:33.2	Intelligence Squared and this week's episode was another event from our online
0:36.7	subscription service Intelligence Squared plus the topic was taming COVID
0:40.7	and preventing the next pandemic we We were joined by two leading experts,
0:44.7	Mark Honexbaum, the medical historian, an author of the new book The Pandemic Century,
0:49.6	a history of global contagion, from the Spanish flu to COVID-19, as well as Sir David King, the former chief scientific
0:56.2	advisor to the UK government and head of the independent sage group which is looking
1:00.4	at how countries and the UK specifically
1:02.6	should respond to the current pandemic.
1:04.4	It's a really fascinating conversation
1:05.9	and was chaired by senior investigative journalists
1:08.4	at the Times newspaper, Manveen Rana,
1:10.6	who is also the host of a terrific podcast called Stories of Our Times.
1:15.1	And if you enjoy this episode, you should check out her podcast.
1:17.6	There's a link in the podcast description and there's a link for Mark Honics Bam's great book there too.
1:22.1	It's a fascinating conversation and the event
1:23.8	was part of our new subscription service Intelligence Square Plus so you'll hear a lot
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