We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic | Bill Gates

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Building a pandemic-free future won't be easy, but Bill Gates believes that we have the tools and strategies to make it possible -- now we just have to fund them. In this forward-looking talk, he proposes a multi-specialty Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization (GERM) team that would detect potential outbreaks and stop them from becoming pandemics. By investing in disease monitoring, research and development as well as improved health systems, Gates believes we can "create a world where everyone has a chance to live a healthy and productive life -- a life free from the fear of the next COVID-19." Join our host Shoshana after the talk as she delves into why it feels like the latest science is always changing – and why that’s exactly what it’s supposed to do. We love making TED Health, and we want to make it better. So if you have a few minutes, share your thoughts at surveynerds.com/ted

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:13.0	Hi, it's Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter and you're listening to Ted Health.
0:17.0	In today's episode, we'll hear a recent talk given by Bill Gates on how we can make
0:22.2	COVID the last pandemic.
0:25.6	And stick around after the talk as we explore why scientific findings seem to shift from month to month since the pandemic started.
0:32.6	And why we can feel safe trusting science despite this.
0:45.6	Get ready to geek out.
0:47.6	The Wired Science Podcast explores all the latest and greatest in science, everything from strange diseases and biological breakthroughs to interesting tech and mysteries and outer space.
0:58.6	Listen to Wired Science today wherever you get your podcasts. That's Wired Science wherever you get your podcasts.
1:06.6	In the year 6CE, a fire devastated Rome.
1:11.6	In response, Emperor Augustus did something that had never been done before in the history of the Empire.
1:19.6	He created a permanent team of firefighters.
1:24.6	Augustus understood that individuals alone can't protect themselves from fires.
1:30.6	They need help from the community.
1:33.6	When one person's house is on fire, that creates a risk for everyone else's homes.
1:40.6	And so what we've had these last few years is like a horrific global fire.
1:46.6	The COVID pandemic has killed millions and upended economies.
1:51.6	And we want to stop that from happening again.
1:56.6	COVID, it's hard to overstate how awful it's been.
2:01.6	It's increased the health inequities between the rich and the poor.
2:06.6	Survival depended partly on your income, your race, the neighborhood you lived in.
2:13.6	And so we should seize this opportunity to create a world where everyone has a chance to live a healthy and productive life.
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