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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

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The “Spanish flu” virus of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people, more than all the deaths in World War I combined. While global public health efforts have greatly improved mortality rates in more modern outbreaks, experts say the next pandemic is a matter of “when,” not “if.” In this episode, Ian Bremmer takes a look how diseases spread and become global. His guest, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is a leading epidemiologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH.

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0:00.0	When you think of a bioterrorist, you think of this person or state that's deliberately trying to release something.
0:15.0	Historically, the worst bioterrorist has been nature itself.
0:20.0	In October 1982, The worst bioterrorist has been nature itself.
0:31.0	In October 1982, a pesky journalist named Lester Kinsolving took his seat in the Reagan White House briefing room.
0:35.9	A string of deaths had been recently reported by the Centers for Disease Control,
0:38.1	attributed to a new disease called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS.
0:41.9	Lester couldn't have known then that AIDS would eventually take the lives of 25 million people
0:46.5	worldwide, but he knew something was wrong.
0:49.7	White House spokesman Larry Speaks, fielded his questions.
0:53.0	Have a listen.
0:54.0	Does the President have any reaction to the announcement of the Center for Disease Control of
0:59.2	Atlanta that AIDS is now an epidemic of 600, over 600 cases?
1:06.0	And over a third of them are done. It's known as gay plague.
1:19.6	No, it is. I mean, it's a pretty serious thing that one and every three people that get this have died, and I wondered if the president is aware of it. I don't have it. Are you...
1:21.6	Do you?
1:22.6	You don't have it? Well, I'm relieved to hear that.
1:25.6	Do you?
1:26.6	You didn't answer my question.
1:29.0	How do you know?
1:30.0	Does the president?
1:30.9	In other words, the White House looks on this is a great joke.
1:34.0	By the end of 1984, scientists had concluded that AIDS was the product of human immunodeficiency
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