The tech we need to end the pandemic and restart the economy with Danielle Allen

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As COVID-19 continues to spread, the world is facing two existential threats at once: a public health emergency and an economic crisis. Political theorist Danielle Allen describes how we can ethically and democratically address both problems by scaling up "smart testing," which would track positive cases with peer-to-peer software on people's cell phones -- so we can end the pandemic and get back to work. This virtual conversation is part of the TED Connects series, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson and business curator Corey Hajim. It was recorded April 6, 2020. To learn more, visit go.ted.com/tedconnects

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.6	Hello there, I'm Chris Anderson and welcome to the Ted Into You.
0:15.4	How are you doing? I hope you're surviving these crazy days okay.
0:19.8	This is another episode where we try to make sense of this current moment.
0:24.4	And there are so many aspects to this moment.
0:27.2	I mean, there's the virus itself.
0:29.0	How does it spread? How do we treat it?
0:30.8	There's the psychology around it, the uncertainty, the isolation, the anxiety.
0:36.4	But increasingly the debate is going to be, what comes next?
0:40.2	How do we dig ourselves out of this in a way that minimizes the damage?
0:44.6	Because we really can't go back to life as normal just like that without risking massive new surges of infection.
0:50.6	So how do we get to some semblance of normal?
0:55.2	What do we need to do now in order to pull that off?
0:58.2	So that's what we're going to talk about today.
1:01.0	Our guest is Professor Danielle Allen, a political theorist and ethicist at Harvard.
1:07.0	She's brought together a multidisciplinary team who proposed a plan that honestly is compelling as any I've seen.
1:13.8	So I'm really pleased to speak with her today.
1:16.5	Joining us is Corey Hajim, our business curator.
1:20.0	And we help this interview live on Facebook.
1:22.1	So Corey will be asking questions on behalf of our virtual audience from time to time
1:27.0	to publish this interview quickly.
1:28.4	It has not been edited.
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