I'm with you on pandemics, you know I'm obsessed with pandemics.
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Like naturally occurring pandemics, engineered pandemics will not respect national borders.
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We need to be prepared — not only against pandemics, but epidemics that threaten to become pandemics and to anticipate potential unknowns.
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"While most pandemics are zoonoses, most zoonoses do not cause pandemics," infectious disease expert James Lloyd-Smith writes in a commentary published alongside the Nature paper.
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Pandemics cost the world more than 40 billion pounds ($58 billion) each year, the report estimated, yet compared with other high-profile threats, preparation for pandemics is chronically underfunded.
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Pandemics have shaped human evolution and society, argues Ms Shah.
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The threat of disease pandemics demands global attention, he said.
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Pandemics also hit the poor hardest and inflame class divisions.
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Responding to pandemics with a patchwork healthcare system is unrealistic.
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Misfortunes, pandemics, nothing like that will do us any harm.
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Yes, modern medicine makes pandemics less likely and less deadly.
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Our ignorance about pandemics tends to swing to dangerous panic.
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That's also true of pandemics, terrorism, cyberterrorism, trade, and travel.
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There are books about pandemics, isolation, and the literal apocalypse.
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But are dictatorships by nature better at dealing with pandemics?
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How might we change our voting systems to withstand pandemics?
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"Some providers do exclude epidemics or pandemics outright," Benna added.
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Here are all the pandemics have come before this one.
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"The U.S. has faced multiple pandemics before," Dr. Messonnier said.
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Bats have been the source of at least 4 pandemics.
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In the 20th century alone, we experienced serious flu pandemics.
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It's about the ways pandemics have altered the evolution of humans.
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They perished in car crashes, and fell victim to global pandemics.
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It's very hard to get a grasp of things like pandemics.
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Natural pandemics can be horrific and catch us completely off guard.
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Pandemics are anti-urban, preying on our human desire for connection.
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It's a reminder of how different things are from past pandemics.
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But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too.
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Pandemics can bring out the best and the worst in humanity.
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So we set up a separate "All Pandemics" project in Basecamp.
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Pandemics like this are expected to rise as the climate changes.
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They are behind some of the most devastating pandemics ever known.
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Back then, disease epidemics and pandemics of all kinds were common.
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Yet the world's strategy for dealing with pandemics is woefully inadequate.
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Reason 1 People resort to extremes when they hear conflicting messages Steven Taylor is a clinical psychologist and author of "The Psychology of Pandemics," which takes a historic look at how people behave and respond to pandemics.
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We cannot totally eliminate the risk of pandemics in the near term.
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Just think: climate change, pandemics, the global financial crisis, the refugee exodus.
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This explains why flu pandemics tend to kill the young and healthy.
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Outbreaks are inevitable, but pandemics are not if we take action now.
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In pandemics, as in war, we all need to do our part.
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In fact, people think public transportation is the biggest incubator of pandemics.
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Here's how COVID-19 stacks up against other pandemics and serious outbreaks.
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Pandemics also demand a more active role for authorities, for the government.
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Prior pandemics have shown that government aid can be slow to arrive.
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Even more troubling, the duration between these three pandemics has gotten shorter.
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Epidemics, plagues, and pandemics have been around since the dawn of civilization.
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COVID-19 is but the latest in a long series of pandemics.
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On trade, previous global pandemics have caused worry about global supply chains.
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Past pandemics have typically originated from animal influenza viruses, the organization states.
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CDC might recommend the use of coordinated school closures during severe pandemics.
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But, as with all modern pandemics, COVID-19 will eventually be tamed.
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What I spend a lot of time worrying about are things like pandemics.
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Many of the investments to prepare for pandemics would bring broader benefits, too.
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Ever since the coronavirus outbreak, I have heard hospital staff "joking" about pandemics.
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Increasing the capacity of our health care system to handle pandemics is essential.
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Projections show costs could have reached trillions of dollars had outbreaks become pandemics.
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He called the novel coronavirus the "worst nightmare" when it comes to pandemics.
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Here are some of the other surprising ways pandemics have changed the world.
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The big battles — be they wars or pandemics — are fought and won collectively.
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The big battles — be they wars or pandemics — are fought and won collectively.
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"These are not the first pandemics that we've dealt with," Hughes told Reuters.
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The scandal led to mounting distrust over the government's ability to handle pandemics.
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Another problem is that investors are not trained in epidemics, let alone pandemics.
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Daszak added that countries need to take more preventative measures to stop pandemics.
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"We should treat pandemics a bit like smoking or heart disease," he said.
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Amy Klobuchar: And I did put out a plan on pandemics, early on.
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Healthcare systems aren't designed to deal with pandemics, because they are so unusual.
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Bill Gates has warned for years that pandemics are a major international threat.
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Unlike seasonal flu, pandemics occur when a completely new or novel virus emerges.
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The illness remains one of history's most destructive pandemics, especially among the young.
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Pandemics pose risks not only to our health but also to our economies.
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Burr also helped write the law that shape's the nation's response to pandemics.
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While both administrations largely did not execute many of the recommended changes to prepare for pandemics after Ebola, the Obama administration did create the National Security Council's global health unit to oversee much of the White House response to pandemics.
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Diseases do not respect borders, and for this reason, pandemics are a global threat.
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Several hearings set for Tuesday afternoon were canceled, including on pandemics and restoring watersheds.
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Because there will be more hurricanes (and terror attacks and flooding and pandemics, etc.).
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We prepared for Ebola and ran multiple tabletop exercises on pandemics and bioterrorism scenarios.
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The last pandemic was in 2009, and there have been pandemics before the Olympics.
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We can't point fingers or continue the horrific history of marrying pandemics to racism.
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"Of course, I at the time was not considering pandemics at all," he said.
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The program was started because the world was unprepared to deal with deadly pandemics.
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We're told after SARS and MRSA some of the companies excluded pandemics from coverage.
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In fact, the Trump administration remains committed to cutting funding to fight potential pandemics.
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In addition to suffering intermittent pandemics, Europeans had to contend with numerous endemic diseases.
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He understands the world that we live in from human rights to human pandemics.
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Outbreaks get characterized as pandemics by epidemiologists -- who are not yet using the term.
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China and other Asian countries have stepped up their ability to respond to pandemics.
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The 2017-18 flu season ranked among the most severe on record, excluding pandemics.
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He gave a big speech there on pandemics and his fears related to that.
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Narartor: The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history.
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Such beauty would not be spoiled by hordes of evil goblins, or Medieval pandemics.
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I've dreamt about murders, pandemics, zombies, drowning, monsters, demons, curses, and getting hopelessly, irreversibly lost.
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So I think we're strong enough to help stabilize these countries, see the pandemics early.
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Let us not forget that disease and pandemics know no borders; prevention is the key.
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Every corner of the U.S. is vulnerable to threats, whether it be hurricanes or pandemics.
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Variations of Y. pestis are thought to have caused at least three known plague pandemics.
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A syndemic is "a synergy of pandemics that co-occur," interact and share common causes.
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"The world needs to prepare for pandemics, the way it prepares for war," Gates adds.
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Some scientists are studying diseases with the potential to become pandemics that could kill millions.
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In general, they argue that it will enhance surveillance and monitoring for new potential pandemics.
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Pandemics are very bad for the economy, and stopping them is good for the economy.
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Shah is not alone in advocating for a paradigm shift in how we understand pandemics.
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"The Great British Bake Off"/"The Great British Baking Show" Forget about pandemics with patisserie.
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The CDC provides training for long-term care facilities on how to operate during pandemics.
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More significantly, these were the first pandemics to coincide with the germ theory of disease.
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The stock market is collapsing again and even beloved celebrities aren't safe from global pandemics.
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In times of pandemics, people are known to react on emotions as opposed to sentiment.
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Movies about viral pandemics and zombies are sprawling stories that traverse entire countries, continents, planets.
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The forecasted figures are an alarming when put in context with other pandemics and wars.
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This is, in part, the folly of a top-down approach to responding to pandemics.
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It was the first of 7 major cholera pandemics that have killed millions of people.
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The CDC lists three other flu waves — in 1958, 1968, and 2009 — as influenza pandemics.
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Our country is safer when our foreign assistance contains global pandemics and combats violent extremism.
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Kleintop compiled research recently on how long stocks felt the pain of endemics and pandemics.
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We cannot make ourselves be completely excluded from that because pandemics don't know geographic boundaries.
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"Pandemics don't know borders," she said during a forum hosted by Georgetown University Medical Center.
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It's not a stretch to imagine pandemics with potential to kill millions of people globally.
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Swamped cities, scorched crops, pandemics — nothing you would wish upon your children, or anyone else's.
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The overall Global Health Security Index of each country was calculated from six categories: prevention of pathogens and toxins, early detection and reporting for pandemics, rapid response to pandemics, strong health system, compliance with international norms, and risk environment and vulnerability to biological threats.
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In the wisdom and comfort of hindsight, experts can assess the world's response to emerging pandemics.
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Other risks are variations on old themes, such as pandemics or the fallout from increasing protectionism.
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In the past, it has provided guidance on potential pandemics and called for open government initiatives.
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Pandemics are a real risk, but plagues similar in impact to the Black Death are not.
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Our greatest challenges also need global responses — like ending terrorism, fighting climate change, and preventing pandemics.
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Large "once-in-a-hundred years" pandemics are not the only outbreaks that can be damaging.
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THE PANDEMICS IS ONE, CLIMATE CHANGE IS ANOTHER, THE REFUGEE CRISIS, FORCED DISPLACEMENT IS A THIRD.
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Vaccines are at the frontline of defense against outbreaks and pandemics, antibiotic resistance and global poverty.
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Potential disasters like solar flares, pandemics or other electro-magnetic disruptions should prod us to action.
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WHO has also identified 14 other diseases that have caused epidemics or pandemics in recent years.
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Most insurance policies that cover companies for business interruption explicitly exclude pandemics for this exact reason.
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A more holistic approach is needed, both now and in anticipation of future pandemics or crises.
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Pandemics, epidemics, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts and earthquakes have sprung to the top of presidential agendas.
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Our way of life in this country has survived wars, economic depressions, and yes, worldwide pandemics.
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But pandemics are different; there's no political constituency in favor of people dying because of misinformation.
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We're unprepared for pandemics, and technological advancement is bringing within reach new threats to our world.
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Recessions — when not related to pandemics — can cause loss of income, increased food insecurity, and homelessness.
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Our greatest challenges also need global responses -- like ending terrorism, fighting climate change, and preventing pandemics.
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Cruelly and ironically, when I grieved the climate crisis, I mourned the coming onslaught of pandemics.
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Historically, epidemics and pandemics are a short-term hit to markets and then they recover eventually.
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Even in years without concerns of global pandemics, you should be getting your damn flu shot.
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"Coronavirus puts into perspective that pandemics aren't a matter of if, but a matter of when."
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Unfortunately, we've got a habit of paying attention to pandemics only when they're actually upon us.
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The pace at which pathogens are flying around the globe and threatening pandemics is only accelerating.
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They also have to cope with unexpected problems, including emergencies ranging from power outages to pandemics.
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I spoke to Molina by phone about the history of xenophobia and public health in the US, what pandemics — or the threat of pandemics — does to our politics, and the difficulties of balancing credible health concerns against the temptations to unfairly ostracize specific groups of people.
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The same conditions that drove cholera — overcrowding, corruption, poor hygiene, expanded transportation — are what drive pandemics today.
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But there are plenty of problems that don't fit into that pattern, like cybersecurity, pandemics and terrorism.
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While pandemics make the news when they happen, efforts to understand, predict, and prevent them are underfunded.
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That sounds expensive, but so are pandemics: The 2003 SARS outbreak in East Asia cost $54 billion.
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"These are countries that had overwhelming pandemics, where a third of their population was dying," said Birx.
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But despite medical advances, AIDS remains one of the most destructive pandemics in history, particularly of youth.
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Diana DeGette said Friday at a congressional hearing on the country's preparedness for pandemics and biological attacks.
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"The world needs to prepare for pandemics, the way it prepares for war," Bill Gates said recently.
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The good news: Most nursing homes and long-term care facilities are prepared for pandemics, Perissonotto said.
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But in order to fit nine pandemics in one book, Honigsbaum chose to leave a lot out.
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What made this past century unusual was not pandemics per se, but our expectations about beating them.
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He's looked into risks like climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, and other potential sources of ecological catastrophe.
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Many business interruption policies exclude coverage for pandemics and require physical damage to occur on the site.
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"Pandemics are not just medical phenomenon," he wrote on Instagram while encouraging others to do the same.
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SARS first appeared in 2002, and triggering debates about whether countries should seal their borders during pandemics.
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The most significant defense the United States has to prevent pandemics is a solid public health infrastructure.
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Pandemics usually begin as viruses in animals that jump to people when we make contact with them.
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This supports the public health approach to deal with future pandemics, when new vaccines are quickly developed.
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To claim that pandemics or virus outbreaks can be planned or timed does not have scientific basis.
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The strategy recognizes the threat from pandemics and biohazards and the importance of strengthening global health security.
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It is my hope that the opportunity to save humanity the trauma, loss of life and cost of a global pandemic will motivate presidential candidates to make bold proposals to invest what is needed to end the pandemics of today, and prevent devastating global pandemics in years to come.
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It's not all driven by fears about technology – terrorism, natural disasters, and pandemics also feature – but much is.
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Pirates, pandemics and massive oil leaks on the sea floor do not fit neatly into your planning calendar.
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"This also means that salt-coated masks could be stockpiled in preparation for pandemics and epidemics," Rubino said.
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The second lesson is much gloomier: techniques for dealing with pandemics have changed little since the 19th century.
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Committing to ending existing pandemics of HIV, TB and malaria while increasing investments in pandemic preparedness and response.
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The first includes natural risks like asteroid and comet impacts, super-volcanic eruptions, global pandemics, and even supernovae.
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I talked to Shah about how this approach can help us better understand the true origins of pandemics.
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And compared to past pandemics, the global response to the novel coronavirus has been one of widespread panic.
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The 1918 and 1957 flu pandemics had death rates of between 30 and 50 percent among pregnant women.
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Read the full story, with more insight from pharmacists on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemics, here.
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Movies and TV shows about pandemics and disasters are surging in popularity on Netflix as the coronavirus spreads.
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Time and again, pandemics have gotten a head start because we didn't realize what we were dealing with.
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"The only thing that is certain is that there will be new pandemics and new plagues," he promises.
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Most Jews in history have not been free, whether from murderous regimes, famines or pandemics like this one.
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Most Jews in history have not been free, whether from murderous regimes, famines or pandemics like this one.
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"This should further lower the economic impact, even if global death rates are much higher than recent pandemics."
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The president and his people also have an abysmal track record when it comes to preparing for pandemics.
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Such a mind-set, it turns out, is also useful in the time of pandemics and self-quarantines.
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That dual threat is exactly why pandemics can be much more damaging than many other "black swan" events.
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But cultural venues, most of which are not insured against pandemics, were waiting for instructions from the government.
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In every situation — yes, even in pandemics — there are little opportunities to reach out and make yourself useful.
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From potential pandemics to hazardous air quality, gig workers are especially at risk during a public health crisis.
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The earliest civilizations certainly experienced local epidemics but probably not pandemics, since they remained isolated from one another.
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The need to aggressively prevent new pandemics is real, even if the threat to us is not immediate.
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From pandemics to nuclear disasters, the world could go bye-bye at anytime, but Doomsday Preppers is forever.
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He said influenza pandemics can be called much earlier and easier because they know how that virus spreads.
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Firing whole tiers of officials responsible for anticipating, preventing and responding to crises and emergencies including deadly pandemics.
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In the last 45 years, at least three other pandemics (besides SARS) have been traced back to bats.
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Pandemics — like wars and economic depressions, with which they often coincide — leave scars on the body of history.
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In a pandemic akin to the flu pandemics in 1957 or 1968, about 13,000 people might need ventilation.
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It can spread rapidly in areas with poor sanitation and has cause several historical global epidemics, or pandemics.
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When it comes to these common -- yet deadly -- pandemics, we can all play a major role curbing their spread.
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But concerns about safety protocols and potential pandemics led the White House to ban funding such research in 2014.
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The phenomenon would signal the start of one of the greatest disease pandemics in history: the Plague of Justinian.
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To get ahead of pandemics, we need an epidemic surveillance and forecasting capability to rival our National Weather Service.
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Given greater global travel, urbanization, and antimicrobial resistance, the likelihood of far-flung pandemics is only going to increase.
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And the risk of bioterrorism is low compared to the risk of new emerging strains that can cause pandemics.
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Washington's influence is waning and those who take the reins in fighting global pandemics will not prioritize U.S. needs.
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We live in a global society and some issues, like global warming, pandemics and refugee migrations, require global cooperation.
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Previous pandemics didn't follow weather patterns plus as we enter summer, there will be winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Focusing on pandemics gives us an apolitical way to collectively approach the general problem of misinformation and fake news.
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And any solutions for pandemics are likely to also be applicable to the more general — and more political — problems.
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" — Kim Stanick "Why doesn't the government mandate that insurance companies open up their business insurance policies to cover pandemics?
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"Anyone who has followed pandemics over the years you know that that doesn't work," he told a news conference.
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The forecasted 100,000 and 240,000 deaths is an alarming number when put into context with other pandemics and wars.
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Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant has been warning us about pandemics—in books, TED talks, and the movie Contagion—for decades.
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Many insurance policies for revenue lost due to "business interruption" exclude pandemics and require physical damage on the premises.
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First, in all probability COVID-85033 will not come close to the severity of any of the great pandemics.
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It's time to turn those lessons into action, and find innovative ways to be prepared before outbreaks become pandemics.
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It's notable that three of the four flu pandemics in the past century were followed shortly by U.S. recessions.
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"For far too long, many businesses have dismissed the potential impact of pandemics as exaggerated scare tactics," she said.
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But, as epidemiologist Larry Brilliant (who spearheaded the effort to eradicate Small Pox), puts it: pandemics can be optional.
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Scientists who have fought pandemics describe difficult measures needed to defend the United States against a fast-moving pathogen.
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Scientists who have fought pandemics describe difficult measures needed to defend the United States against a fast-moving pathogen.
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But I also recognize you don't just defend the American people against terrorist attack but against pandemics as well.
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Far from "overlooking" measures that might curtail future pandemics, it is precisely because of my concern that the example of 1918 is distorting present-day planning, and my concern that we may be in danger of forgetting its lessons, that I was moved to survey the last century of epidemics and pandemics.
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We get that our greatest challenges need global responses too -- no country can fight climate change alone or prevent pandemics.
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Nipah is on the WHO's priority list of emerging diseases that could cause global pandemics, next to Ebola and Zika.
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We get that our greatest challenges need global responses too — no country can fight climate change alone or prevent pandemics.
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"Moderately severe to severe" pandemics cost an average of $570bn annually, or 0.7% of global GDP, according to the bank.
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On the world stage, understanding culture, politics and economics is crucial to health challenges that range from pandemics to bioterrorism.
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"As we see from history, there are regular pandemics in our world and we are due for one," said Cheng.
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The initial development and early-stage testing of vaccines for the most likely future pandemics would cost roughly $150m each.
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" Though these A strains change periodically, they're the ones that cause pandemics, "whereas the B flu strains usually smolder along.
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Likewise, strengthening a country's ability to prevent and respond to pandemics like Ebola reduces threats to Americans and our economy.
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People have, of course, often named pandemics for their alleged point of origin, and they have sometimes been terribly wrong.
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"This deadly example shows the benefit of canceling mass gatherings and employing social distancing measures during pandemics," the CDC said.
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It's a policy that isn't just rooted in generosity — during pandemics like the novel coronavirus, it can literally save lives.
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We've overcome pandemics like the largely forgotten 1957-58 flu, which killed some 1.1 million people worldwide, including 116,000 Americans.
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We also stopped potential pandemics like Ebola through proactive public health initiatives that helped contain its spread to West Africa.
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And roboticists are realizing that some of the simplest tasks, which carry risk during pandemics, could be assumed by robots.
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The rise of H.I.V. and the 1918 influenza were unquestionably catastrophic — but other centuries saw pandemics as bad or worse.
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It is also drawing on a stockpile Gilead created for use in future pandemics after Ebola outbreaks in West Africa.
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The hope is that it could eventually be used to root out pandemics or bio-attacks in the future, too.
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Jason Charles: So, a prepper is someone who prepares for disasters, emergencies, and pretty much, you know, pandemics like this.
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In 2017 they were sold to private investors, who would lose their money if any of six deadly pandemics hit.
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Most of the pandemics have at least one thing in common: They began their deadly work in Asia or Africa.
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Pandemics have afflicted civilizations throughout human history, with the earliest known outbreak occurring in 430 BC during the Peloponnesian War.
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We posed some questions to Donald McNeil, a Times reporter who has covered epidemics and pandemics for nearly two decades.
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We sat down with our infectious diseases reporter, Donald G. McNeil Jr., who has covered pandemics for nearly two decades.
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The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has made clear the urgency of developing a vital yet overlooked antidote to pandemics — democracy.
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Global trade, as well as measures to halt climate change, migration, terrorism and international pandemics are all on the agenda.
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Humans have been hit by three major plague pandemics over the past 22016,22017 years, resulting in nearly 2219 million deaths.
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Yet it's this double standard that allows outbreaks to become pandemics, and that imperils public health — in Africa and everywhere.
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With enough money and scientific progress, the strategy could bring a drastic change in the way the world tackles pandemics.
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This federal ability to avert pandemics is now mostly gone, making our ability to contain diseases worldwide significantly more difficult.
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You'd also spend a lot of money on disease surveillance and fighting outbreaks of exotic, would-be pandemics where they happen.
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She was co-chair of a panel that in September issued a report detailing the world's failure to prepare for pandemics.
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Of the five flu pandemics that have been recorded since 1889, none besides the 1918 episode killed more than 2m people.
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Beyond improved vaccines, equally pressing for the future of public health will be addressing pandemics that have not yet even begun.
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When people hear about antibiotic resistance creating "superbugs", they tend to think of new diseases and pandemics spreading out of control.
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"Natural pandemics, such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, have shown the damage that infectious diseases can inflict," it said.
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Insurance for damage, business interruption and other consequences have been underwritten with new policies being developed for dynamic threats like pandemics.
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And it's a reminder of the ever-present risk of pandemics — a risk for which experts say we're really not prepared.
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While FEMA is usually associated with natural disasters, like tornadoes and hurricanes, the agency is also prepared to respond to pandemics.
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That is why we must cooperate with partners globally and invest in helping other countries to contain this and future pandemics.
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At the store's Broadway location on the Upper West Side, a section has been created for books on viruses and pandemics.
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Despite the potential for disaster, few insurance policies cover pandemics, because the risk is not well understood and difficult to price.
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I am fascinated by this kind of stuff, a layperson reading a lot of books about pandemics and stuff like that.
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We're covering another macabre coronavirus milestone in Italy, what the American government knew about pandemics, and the anxious mood in Madrid.
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One thing we do have that didn't exist during other pandemics throughout history is the internet which makes connecting much easier.
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Our under-equipped hospitals have to at once provide care for the sick and rebuild to be better prepared for pandemics.
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Despite this counsel, news coverage and social media discourse has obsessed over CFRs and how they compare across pandemics throughout history.
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One study even suggests that it's a misnomer to assume the ill and elderly are the most at-risk during pandemics.
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Covid-19 is a brand new disease, and a lot of the needs assessments are based on long-ago flu pandemics.
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Gates has also been outspoken on issues that he says pose a grave threat to mankind, including climate change and pandemics.
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Decades of scientific research, lessons from past pandemics, and common sense suggest the answer to all of these questions is yes.
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By that definition, the SARS outbreak and HIV/AIDS are both pandemics, though the WHO does not label them as such.
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"Only the reinsurers and investors came out ahead," said Jonas, who spent seven years coordinating the World Bank's response to pandemics.
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The last moderately severe influenza pandemics were in 21 and 219; each killed more than a million people around the world.
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"The world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war," he said at the time.
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And then he also, of course, closed down some of the work that was being done across the world on pandemics.
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The goal of that initiative was to help high-risk countries prepare for future disease outbreaks in order to prevent pandemics.
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The terms tend to be too advantageous to holders, while for the victims of pandemics, any payout may come too late.
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Whoever becomes our next president will have the power to shape the world's response to both current and future infectious pandemics.
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China is under intense scrutiny following its poor track record in alerting the international community to other potential global health pandemics.
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There have been four flu pandemics in the past century: in 1918-1919; in 1957-1958; in 1968; and in 2009.
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You don't have to be an altruist to accept that pandemics are best averted in the countries where they typically begin.
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It might even help scientists to model how influenza recombines and shuffles genetic material around, creating unexpected strains that could cause pandemics.
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Global terror threats, the migration crisis, and new pandemics like Ebola have long since eclipsed concerns over HIV in international news coverage.
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Global health Predict, a government research program, sought to identify animal viruses that might infect humans and to head off new pandemics.
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"When you look throughout history, these pandemics tend to be short-term pullbacks and they tend to be buyable pullbacks," Tepper said.
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The U.N. is crucial for resolving complex transnational problems, ranging from the refugee crisis to nuclear proliferation and global pandemics like Zika.
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Bennett said the PEF as a whole would provide more than $500 million of coverage against pandemics over the next five years.
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Countries can't isolate themselves from the flow of disease across borders, and fighting and preventing pandemics requires cross-border collaboration and cooperation.
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Over four seasons, viewers were introduced to people preparing for all sorts of disasters, from earthquakes and economic collapse to, yes, pandemics.
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For more on the deadly complexities of pandemics and the latest information on Covid-19, check out our video with Yasmin above.
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Events like pandemics and earthquakes and locusts are supposed to help simplify life, and remind us how to prioritize what's actually important.
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The Department of Homeland Security reportedly wound down a program that created reports about how pandemics would impact American infrastructure, Politico reported.
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Pandemics on the rise With the frequency and severity of disease outbreaks on the rise, demand for insurance is poised to grow.
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"I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like covid-19," she writes.
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In a strange twist, however, some people are seeking out films about pandemics to watch while more news about the coronavirus unfolds.
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Our public health services for dealing with pandemics include institutions like the Center for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health.
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Gwyneth Paltrow is protecting herself and her loved ones against coronavirus -- let's face it, she knows a thing or 2 about pandemics.
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The time to start demanding that your politicians and government leaders actively prepare and respond more effectively to future pandemics is now.
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The system could have attractive emergency-use applications during natural disasters—or pandemics—when delivering supplies requires fast, reliable, and secure transport.
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We sat down with our infectious diseases reporter, Donald G. McNeil Jr., who has covered epidemics and pandemics for nearly two decades.
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That Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which killed at least 13 million people worldwide, has been the benchmark for pandemics ever since.
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And there is one more important factor that focusing too much on antibodies or inflammation can miss: the psychological effects of pandemics.
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Since humans are natural hosts of influenza B and the virus mutates much slower than influenza A, pandemics rarely occur with this type.
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Type A flu viruses—those which cause pandemics, and also most seasonal flu, have two important surface proteins, haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N).
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USAID works among foreign populations, responding to and containing threats — from pandemics to famines to the greatest refugee and IDP crisis since WWII.
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Researchers swab the birds' butts (the technical term is "cloacas") and pick up their droppings in search of clues about potential future pandemics.
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"Should the methods stand further scrutiny and data-modeling, (this) will have serious implications in how we model and prevent pandemics," Corthals said.
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With so much to worry about in today's world, from viral pandemics to international terrorism to Brexit and Trump, this hardly seems surprising.
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Opinion Columnist Some disasters, like hurricanes and earthquakes, can bring people together, but if history is any judge, pandemics generally drive them apart.
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"Countering biological threats, infectious diseases, and pandemics is a priority of the administration — a key pillar of our national security strategy," Rear Adm.
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What gets lost in superficial analogies is that, despite some valid and instructive parallels between the two pandemics, there are many more differences.
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Variety reported that the festival recently declined to purchase a "buy-back option covering epidemics and pandemics" from its insurance company, Circle Group.
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Donate to candidates who will get Trump out of office and help us all deal with pandemics better The election is still happening.
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But pandemics are even harder to model than natural disasters such as hurricanes, for which a market in "catastrophe bonds" is well established.
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He also says the government should have been prepared in advance for pandemics, citing a lack of testing kits as a big problem.
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Pandemics may result in significant increases in requests for Department of Defense (DOD) assistance from civil authorities if they become overwhelmed in response.
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All of these countries voted against the United States at the UN. This did nothing to change the U.S. interest in preventing pandemics.
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With a smaller investment, we can also try to get ahead of pandemics by working with communities in hot spots of emerging diseases.
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Preventing future pandemics will require culturally competent prevention and response as well as a blend of economic incentivization, good policy, and political will.
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Miller says that the ranch hopes to expand to more locations as more people worry about pandemics and the decline of social order.
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Occasionally, extremely dangerous combinations can spark pandemics, such as the deadly H1N1.73 "swine flu" that spread worldwide in the 2009-10 flu season.
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Ms. Shah uses cholera, one of the most obdurate of pandemics, as a paradigm to explain how new deadly pathogens both emerge and circulate.
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Another former official calls Mr Obama unusually focused on "global" threats, such as climate change, pandemics, nuclear non-proliferation and far-flung terror networks.
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Bats were the original hosts of several other zoonotic diseasesIn the past 45 years, at least four pandemics have been traced back to bats.
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Influenza pandemics are caused by a strain of the virus to which the population has little or no preexisting immunity, according to the CDC.
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Since pandemics can so easily sweep across national borders, it's impossible for any country to be secure without good response systems around the world.
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Variants have included a bond aimed at educating girls in India and a World Bank-led initiative to raise money to respond to pandemics.
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A front-runner for global pandemics is the seasonal influenza virus, which mutates so much that a vaccine must be custom-made every year.
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We used the outbreak to talk about the challenges of global health governance and the lack of a coordinated approach to prepare for pandemics.
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"It is one of those phenomena that comes along in a big way about once a lifetime — like pandemics, depressions, or wars," he said.
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It would also provide financing in event of pandemics caused by other infectious diseases such as Marburg, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever or Lassa fever.
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Increased laboratory capacity, real-time disease surveillance and efficient supply chains are critical for containing outbreaks and stopping pandemics in an increasingly interconnected world.
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Dzau's own research has demonstrated how from 2002 to 2015 outbreaks and pandemics of diseases including cholera, chikungunya, and Zika only became more common.
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For all things sci-fi and mystery, you'll want a game that challenges your squad to solve crimes and work together to bust pandemics.
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As part of our efforts to thwart pandemics before they start — or before they get severe — we take samples of the viruses currently circulating.
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The Zika virus continues to spread across South America and beyond, but unlike with other pandemics, identifying and mapping the outbreak has proven hard.
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Moving forward, what we have to see is that pandemics, climate disasters, all of these are related to our huge footprint on the planet.
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Whatever the course of the coronavirus, mandatory sick leave for American workers would improve the lives of families and insulate the economy against pandemics.
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"The more we know [about pandemics], the easier it will be for us to develop financial solutions that provide meaningful protection," added Marsh's Wright.
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Dr. Luciana Borio of the former White House National Security Council (NSC) team responsible for pandemics has previously warned of a pandemic flu threat.
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Influenza pandemics occur when a novel animal flu virus acquires the ability to infect humans and they, in turn, transmit it to other humans.
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Thanks to streaming services like Netflix, people are turning to movies, TV shows, and books to pass the time — sometimes even ones about pandemics.
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Always skeptical of career government officials, "Trump has used the opportunity to put nonprofessionals in charge," said Skidmore, the expert on presidents and pandemics.
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And pandemics do disrupt supply chains, which are actually intricate webs, in multiple ways that span the globe and usually take time to recover.
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Past pandemics for influenza had been declared in 2009, 1968, and 1957, when new strains of flu circled the world in a few months.
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"I view the threat of deadly pandemics right up there with nuclear war and climate change," in an essay for Business Insider in 2017.
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The good news is that, compared to past pandemics, there's new technology that helps keep us together even when we have to be apart.
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"We have a very robust planning effort, as you know, in the Defense Department, and we been planning for pandemics for a long time."
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Adequeately responding to such pandemics and preserving public health depends on credible action, strong leadership, and responsible behavior by the governments and agencies involved.
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The coming weeks will reveal whether China, other governments and the WHO have learned their lessons from those past pandemics and implemented needed reforms.
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In the past, declarations of this kind have been used for epidemics of severe illness threatening to become pandemics as they cross international borders.
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There are many areas where cooperation can help everyone — for example in A.I.-based approaches to climate challenges, space exploration, disaster relief and pandemics.
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But when it comes time to talk about pandemics or whatever you may want to call it, you got to get away from politics.
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Ms. Shi and colleagues have been tracing coronaviruses in bats since then, warning that some of them are uniquely suited to cause human pandemics.
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A big health announcement at the World Economic Forum: A new coalition has raised $500 million to fundamentally change the way pandemics are handled.
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Scientists have the potential to create something far worse than nature ever could, thrusting our civilization into uncharted territory as far as pandemics are concerned.
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I was shown the skeletal remains of a woman who had died from one of the greatest pandemics ever: the "Black Death" of 1347-1351.
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"The world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war," the former head of Microsoft said during his speech.
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Finally, they argued that being outside the EU would make it harder for the UK to deal with pandemics as well as other emerging diseases.
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Epidemics and pandemics can do it, as the Black Death did when it changed the relative values of land and labour in late medieval Europe.
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Flu viruses deemed capable of causing human pandemics are grouped according to whether exposure to one sort can confer a protective immune response to another.
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But ultimately Mr Obama put more weight on tackling global challenges, from climate change to pandemics to nuclear proliferation, for which he needed Chinese help.
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If the BRI succeeds in supercharging global connectivity, it will almost certainly increase the risk of pandemics, drug and wildlife trafficking, and other dangerous flows.
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The world's ability to put the lid on pandemics has come a long way since the days when the plague, cholera and smallpox ravaged unchecked.
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This leads to the terrifying specter of independent actors intentionally (or unintentionally) engineering pathogens with the potential to inflict worse harm than history's deadliest pandemics.
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Pandemics cost the world more than 40 billion pounds ($58 billion) each year, the report estimated, yet preparations are chronically underfunded compared with other threats.
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From response and coordination to public communication, we found that our country was unprepared to face pandemics (epidemics that affect large parts of the globe).
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He said research is needed to understand and prevent devastating pandemics, such as the 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic that killed some 50 million people.
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Dr. Sylvie Briand, the World Health Organization's director of pandemics, has endorsed a range of greetings as an alternative to the handshake, including bumping elbows.
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And of the last 193 influenza pandemics, two started in the winter, three in the spring, two in the summer and three in the fall.
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A body was set up to coordinate developing vaccines for pandemics and researchers can now leverage work done during previous outbreaks to propel them forward.
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"Instead it means that the way our economies operate absent pandemics has massive hidden health costs, and it takes a pandemic to help see that."
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And maybe countries will see you can't only invest in research and preparedness for pandemics when they're already happening, then abandon the effort in between.
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To understand more about the merits of the administration's drive-through testing plan, I called Dr. Dena Grayson, a physician and an expert on pandemics.
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And when you start thinking the world is ending or you can't get through this, remind yourself that pandemics end, economies rebound, and people survive.
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This follows the generally accepted wisdom that public transportation is a germ-infested petri dish of humanity that incubates novel diseases even during non-pandemics.
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Tracing sick people and who they have been in contact with is an effective way of curbing pandemics, as many countries learned during earlier outbreaks
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It was not immediately clear if the tribe's insurance excludes pandemics, and its lawyer did not immediately respond to a request to clarify the issue.
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If pandemics are kept under control through measures like a vaccine, this has significant benefits for the global economy, trade and health across the world.
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The Ebola virus, named for a river close to the initial outbreak, was limited in its range compared to most modern pandemics but incredibly deadly.
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Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on in New York, Wall Street has developed extensive contingency plans for dealing with large scale disruptions, including pandemics.
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London (CNN Business)Three years ago, the World Bank issued new bonds to raise funds that could be used to help poor countries fight pandemics.
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The hedge fund investor said Bridgewater studied past pandemics to put the latest coronavirus in perspective and expects to do more homework on the topic.
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Infected people were isolated and quarantined to stop the spread of the disease, and the discussion inspired debates about how to deal with global pandemics.
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Under former President Barack Obama, infrastructure was established to respond to the Ebola and Zika outbreaks and to ensure that they did not become pandemics.
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It's going to create chaos, violence, mass migrations, pandemics, and state collapse around the world, particularly in vulnerable areas like Africa and the Middle East.
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EcoHealth Alliance's research has shown pandemics are becoming a greater risk to global health because humans are interacting with wildlife and traveling around the world.
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"This financing will help us mitigate risks from climate shocks, natural disasters, as well as pandemics," Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina said in a statement.
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Yet most countries are not well-prepared for disease pandemics and are failing to invest enough in preparedness, warned a World Bank report last month.
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When you have a budget that slashes everything from investing in dealing with pandemics worldwide all the way to after-school programming or public education.
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To me, however, the most provocative — and sci-fi — part of Ms. Shah's book is not about the ways humans have altered the evolution of pandemics.
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Yet containing pandemics - diseases that spread globally compared with epidemics that are localized - would cost about $1 per person per year in investment, the Bank said.
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It is a conundrum that scientists have deliberated over for a century, because the 21918 flu is an anomaly in the annals of flu pandemics too.
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Although health insurers normally incorporate mortality risk associated with seasonal influenza into their premium rates, they do not typically incorporate an expectation for epidemics or pandemics.
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Such an outcome would be similar to that of the last two pandemics - the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
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It's the place where we live our greatest moments, from wars to pandemics to liberations ... I'm telling you all tonight -- we will rebuild this cathedral together.
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"Pandemics don't respect national boundaries, so we have a common interest in strengthening our defenses against infectious diseases in every part of the world," he said.
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"We have not done nearly enough to prevent or prepare for such potential pandemics," the commission's chair, Peter Sands, wrote in the preface to the report.
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SAB Biotherapeutics, based in Sioux Falls, S.D., has bred genetically engineered bovine to make human antibodies that fight disease and even halt pandemics, such as Ebola.
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The need for high-level leadership, coordination, and a new strategy are essential to mitigate the threat of pandemics, but these fundamental pandemic preparedness gaps persist.
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There are plenty other catastrophic and existential risks worth worrying about, such as pandemics, nuclear war, and future technologies such as artificial superintelligence and molecular nanotechnology.
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And our recent paper found that these strategic investments in a coordinated global-pandemics initiative would likely return between $17 and $20 on every $85033 spent.
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U.S. citizens will benefit from the world's collective efforts to prepare against pandemics because, as we learn again and again, dangerous pathogens do not respect borders.
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The annual global cost of moderately severe to severe pandemics is estimated at roughly $570 billion, or 0.7 percent of global income, the World Bank said.
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By the way, in the aftermath of that outbreak the Obama administration put in place measures to deal with future pandemics — all of which Trump scrapped.
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Those pandemics had estimated case fatality ratios far below 1% -- and Covid-19 may kill more than 1 in 100 people who get sick with it.
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The technology currently available to us would be unfathomable to those who suffered during past pandemics, so now is the time to take advantage of it.
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There are people who cope with difficult times by leaning into them, but I'm not someone who wants to read a book about pandemics right now.
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In June, prompted by the slow response to the Ebola crisis, the World Bank issued bonds to create a $500 million "insurance fund" for fighting pandemics.
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The NSC's director for medical and biodefense preparedness, Dr. Luciana Borio, left in 2018, as did Bossert, whose job included coordinating a response to global pandemics.
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And if history is a guide, the recovery from pandemics is actually economically sometimes faster than, for instance, the stock market anticipates or that others predict.
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Many will also point to potentially huge investments in healthcare systems if flu-like pandemics are expected to recur over the coming decades at great cost.
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Yet, despite all of this, there are also wonderful things to learn from the way our communities have responded to pandemics, whether HIV or the coronavirus.
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In The New Yorker, Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, talks about how pandemics can change history.
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But adding concrete details — for example, that past pandemics suggest controlling COVID-19 will require eight to ten weeks of isolation, Adirim said — helps calm anxiety.
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For example, just like the Kardashians (give or take a few million), I'm a Californian, so my recommendations are for earthquakes, floods, fires, pandemics, and terrorism.
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The history of pandemics, as Columbia University assistant professor Merlin Chowkwanyun told Vox recently, is bound up with outbursts of fear-mongering and anti-immigration hysteria.
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Most of the related pandemics have at least one thing in common: They began their deadly work in Asia or Africa, writes virologist Suresh V Kuchipudi.
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One of the worst pandemics in human history struck the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Justinian in the mid-sixth century of the common era.
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In 2018, the White House eliminated the National Security Council job Obama created to guard against future pandemics by institutionalizing the role Klain played on Ebola.
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"A severe pandemic would resemble a global war in its sudden, profound, and widespread impact," the World Bank assessed in a report on pandemics from 2013.
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To escape from the Age of Pandemics, we'll need to treat them as a public health issue and start working on prevention in addition to responses.
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Geospatial data can shed light on everything from the future of our warming planet to the unexplored ruins of bygone civilization to informed responses to pandemics.
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They offer investors high-interest payments in return for taking on the risk of losing a certain amount or all of their money if pandemics occur.
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The museum's enormous rotunda was filled with sculptures built by Chicago-based artist Samantha Rausch, each representing a different global threat: overpopulation, pandemics, income inequality, sexual violence.
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The two subsequent flu pandemics of the 73th century, in 1957 and 1968, were caused by viruses carrying H2 and H3 antigens respectively, in combination with N2.
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Applying such algorithms to mapping areas affected by pandemics could mean maps are produced even faster, increasing the chances of containing outbreaks before they spread too far.
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Short of that, foreign adversaries could use stolen American data to become quicker to come up with solutions to future pandemics or diseases like Zika and SARS.
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Quick and accurate diagnostic tests are key to determining which viruses are already circulating and would allow researchers to anticipate new pandemics and develop and stockpile vaccines.
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So I actually worry the most, to be honest, about pandemics, I'm kind of in the Bill Gates camp on that one, when it comes to security.
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Predicting these losses is hard, but a recent report on global health risks puts the expected economic losses from potential pandemics at around $60 billion a year.
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Leaders from the seven leading industrialized nations started two days of talks in Japan today, where they're also expected to discuss fighting terrorism, pandemics and tax evasion.
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This significant drop in funding increases our vulnerability at a time when global pandemics are on the rise and infectious diseases are mutating at a rapid pace.
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Although we are (hopefully) not using a racist term to refer to this virus, many of us have unwittingly bought into a particular paradigm for understanding pandemics.
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What if the real story of modern pandemics is not about how animals and their germs are invading our human realm but about how we're invading theirs?
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Despite King's thoughts on the subject, the 2011 movie "Contagion" is rising in popularity, showing that demand for fictional depictions of pandemics could be on the rise.
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In addition to social distancing, societies have often drawn on another resource to survive disasters and pandemics: social solidarity, or the interdependence between individuals and across groups.
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We need to solve the problem of misinformation during pandemics together — governments and industries in collaboration with medical officials, all across the world — before there's a crisis.
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Some of these books about isolation and pandemics were written long before 2020, and others eerily came out just as this virus was starting to spread IRL.
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I've been reluctant to say this, but one of the lessons history teaches us is that we often get pandemics wrong or epidemics wrong as they're occurring.
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I've been reluctant to say this, but one of the lessons history teaches us is that we often get pandemics wrong or epidemics wrong as they're occurring.
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Based on studies of previous pandemics — a designation the COVID-19 strain has not yet received — Morningstar estimated that the ultimate mortality rate will be about 0.5%.
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Healthcare: We need to determine how much emergency capacity is needed in epidemic situations and how we can pay for it, so they don't grow into pandemics.
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At the same time, he notes that worthwhile data projects such as Predict, which is designed to predict pandemics, have been starved of funding in recent years.
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The bonds offer investors high interest payments in return for taking on the risk of losing a certain amount or all of their money if pandemics occur.
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Despite the limitations, these projections are probably directionally correct based on a recent study analyzing the economic impact of pandemics and the public health responses to them.
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On some level I think it will return to normal, but I think people in general will be more cautious and understanding of this reality of pandemics.
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It also eliminates cash and on-site point of sale transactions (with touchscreens and pens), and also facilitates contact-free handoffs, critical in the age of pandemics.
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These pandemics "are more likely to originate in the Far East because of the close contact with live animals [and] the density of the population," Hyzler added.
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Using global pandemics as an excuse to block people from entering the United States has always been a good move and definitely never a mistake, so me?
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Pandemics are like terrorist attacks: We know roughly where they originate and what's responsible for them, but we don't know exactly when the next one will happen.
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By the 22015th century, scientists were pretty sure that all three pandemics were caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, which is found in small mammals and fleas.
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These epidemics and pandemics devastated many of their host countries -- the West Africa Ebola outbreak resulted in a loss of $53 billion in economic and social cost.
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Notably, however, none of the other highly ranked alternatives — "nuclear weapons, pandemics, cyberattacks, and problems with high technology" — have been discussed much in the presidential campaign either.
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A giant asteroid hitting Earth, disease pandemics, a massive volcanic eruption, artificial intelligence turning against us, weapons of mass destruction and ecological collapse all made the list.
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Recent pandemics include the Zika virus, an infectious disease linked to severe birth defects in babies, and the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, the Bank said.
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The cities belonged to a previously unknown civilization, and the reasons for its collapse aren't known, although Preston speculates that the apocalyptic pandemics could have played a role.
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There are no shortage of major problems facing the world, but pandemics, with their unique combination of speed and deadliness, deserve far more attention than they're currently getting.
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Virologist Esparza counts 11 pandemics that have occurred in the last 14 years, including Ebola, the H1N1 (swine) flu and MERS – all but one of which were viruses.
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The planet is in the midst of its seventh cholera pandemic — one that affects about 3 million people each year and, unlike past pandemics that faded away, persists.
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For nearly two decades, the federal government has committed to biopreparedness and made significant progress toward enabling our country to withstand and respond to biological attacks and pandemics.
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So here's a scary thought: Possible future pandemics may not depend on the chance meeting of different animal species and chance mutations, but may be deliberately designed instead.
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White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert, who called for a thorough strategy to combat pandemics, left the administration the day after Bolton starting serving in the post.
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Late last month, the United Nations issued a warning about global pandemics in a report so urgent, it arrived with the words "ADVANCED UNEDITED COPY" stamped on it.
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Last spring, that research was briefly touted by Bill Gates, the guy who funded it, in an attempt to bring the issue of pandemics to the world's attention.
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However, the strains of the bacteria -- you can also call them variations if you like -- causing the two pandemics were different, and the Justinianic strain is extinct today.
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Preventing and preparing for potentially catastrophic pandemics "is far more effective, and ultimately far less expensive, than reacting to them when they occur — which they will," he added.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has served as a wall against global pandemics for more than 70 years, fighting smallpox, polio and HIV/AIDS among its key accomplishments.
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But as with other global initiatives that have helped to control nuclear arsenals, contain global pandemics and safeguard our skies, coordination and cooperation are critical, and can grow.
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More than two billion people now live in fragile or conflict countries, where problems caused by famine, violence, pandemics, or natural disasters can spill across borders and regions.
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After Hurricane Katrina, professors at Stanford University developed a widely used framework to guide medical decision-making in situations of resource scarcity, such as pandemics and natural disasters.
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If it feels like we're living in a disaster movie at the moment, that's probably because there's been so much famous fiction chronicling deadly pandemics in the past.
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Insurance companies are facing political pressure to pay what could be a crippling sum of coronavirus claims — even though many of them say their policies don't cover pandemics.
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Tom Bossert, who was then Trump's homeland security adviser, expressed enthusiasm about its potential as part of the administration's broader strategy to fight pandemics, two former officials said.
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"The close conditions and lack of access to hygiene products in prisons and jails make these institutions especially susceptible to viral pandemics," the groups wrote in a memo.
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And all of this can be traced back to the Trump administration's decision in the spring of 2018 to deprioritize the federal government's ability to respond to pandemics.
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That's why it was so important to have this agency in place even during years, like 2018, when disease pandemics didn't seem like a nearby threat to everyone.
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Coronavirus ain't alone ... researchers are seeing more and more bugs with the same potential to create pandemics, according to a guy on the front lines of the battle.
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A new variation of the Ebola virus roared through three countries in West Africa, killing more than 11,000 people in one of the worst pandemics in recent history.
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Background: As early as the George W. Bush administration, federal officials have focused on gaps in the U.S. response to biological attacks and the growing risk of pandemics.
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With President-Elect Donald Trump taking office this week, there's a lot of uncertainty about how the US will handle public health and respond to potential future pandemics.
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We have witnessed epidemics and pandemics throughout history, and there are some legal precedents regarding the power of government to prevent the spread of the potentially deadly virus.
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Pandemics do not physically damage infrastructure, but supply chains can be severely disrupted due to higher levels of employee absenteeism in many locations and sectors with cascading impacts.
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Experts from business and government must come together – call it a Davos for pandemics – to consider both the substantive and perceived impacts of infectious disease across these dimensions.
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Many of these pandemics have had significant impacts on human society, from killing large percentages of the global population to causing humans to ponder larger questions about life.
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This week, Ai Weiwei in Minneapolis, how museums can help people understand pandemics, what 'politically correct art' means, being a rich writer, how much animals sleep, and more.
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The third test for the multilateral system is whether countries besides China take actions that enhance, rather than impede, responses to pandemics, improving global health in the process.
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From mounting political tension and global pandemics to environmental crisis and the risk of recession, it's no wonder the majority of Gen Z reports feeling constantly stressed out.
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" The CDC has been referring to guidance on how to deal with flu pandemics, in a document called "Community Mitigation Guidelines to Prevent Pandemic Influenza United States 1.
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Past experience with worldwide novel flu pandemics in 1957 and 1968 that killed more than 1 million people worldwide have raised alarms about the spread of COVID-19.
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In the end, he gave up and called the coronavirus "the Spanish flu," since it was a common term used as a catch-all to describe past pandemics.
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However, the strains of the bacteria—you can also call them variations if you like—causing the two pandemics were different, and the Justinianic strain is extinct today.
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That unit, which was shut down in 2018, was created in the wake of the 2014 Ebola outbreak specifically to deal with the US response to global pandemics.
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As we heed scientists' warnings that we are entering "the age of pandemics," we can benefit from reading "The Last Man" as the first major post-apocalyptic novel.
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He wants them to get back to focusing on "long-term problems which, in my view, includes these global health things and stopping pandemics" — as well as climate change.
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In the 1918, 1957, and 1968 pandemics, the H1N1, H2N2, and H3N2 strains each made only two mutations to recognize human cells and lead to a pandemic, Paulson says.
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Preventing pandemics is extremely important work: In the next two decades, experts believe, there is a reasonable probability of a pandemic that kills more than 21 million people worldwide.
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Molecular biology is often found on the front lines of pandemics, appearing in on-the-spot diagnostic tools that are cheap and do not require extensive equipment or training.
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KIM: WELL, YOU KNOW, OUR VIEW IS THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF PANDEMICS, OF THINGS LIKE ZIKA, YOU KNOW, THE EARLIER YOU SPEND, THE BETTER.
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Some are big problems and issues that have global reach and implications such as water and food security, pollution, climate-related disaster mitigation and curing diseases and preventing pandemics.
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Technical or specialized assistance, such as responding to pandemics, should be led by the experts but coordination is critical to ensuring effective broader application of U.S. government resources. 10.
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Throughout humanity's history, and especially since we started living in condensed cities and could travel far, plague has reared its ugly head and caused civilization-shaping epidemics and pandemics.
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Rossi insists that the insurance policies will encourage countries to establish better monitoring and management tools so that they can respond to outbreaks before they become severe global pandemics.
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For Rossi and the team at Metabiota, it's imperative that the governments of countries where these pandemics originate invest in early detection systems for when diseases begin to spread.
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Global health—public and private sector initiatives around health issues that transcend national borders, like climate change, obesity, flash pandemics, and antibiotic resistance—rarely surfaced during the presidential campaign.
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"There is a significantly more complex threat with climate change, terror attacks, pandemics and manipulation of information," Christina Andersson, of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
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Working with other partners, including the private sector, we created a global Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility to deliver a rapid response to severe disease outbreaks before they become pandemics.
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"Even if COVID-19 is declared a pandemic, that won't trigger trip cancellation benefits as pandemics are not a covered reason to cancel under a standard policy," Barto says.
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"The Spanish flu is one of the worst, if not the worst, pandemic humanity ever went through, and it's really anomalous in the history of flu pandemics," she explains.
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After the horrors of SARS 17 years ago, Singapore has developed a robust infrastructure for dealing with pandemics, and it was ready and prepared when the novel coronavirus hit.
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In the months and years following 9/11 there was renewed interest in a plan for the federal government, even in the case of terrorism, biological attacks and pandemics.
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These titles aren't the first about the end of the world and pandemics to rise in popularity amid the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed more than 10,000 people worldwide.
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Six years ago, the scientist leading the US government's program to catch diseases before they turn into global pandemics went to Capitol Hill with a map of the world.
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As you may be able to tell from the title, Mr. Scheidel makes the case that throughout history, inequality has led only to terrible things (think pandemics and wars).
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Background: American officials began to study the growing risk of pandemics during the George W. Bush administration, and President Barack Obama created a specific agency to plan for them.
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But just in case you're in the mood for something other than disaster films about pandemics or have already blazed through Netflix's top ten titles, Disney+ has you covered.
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Much of the intelligence community's tasking on the issue of global health and pandemics comes from the National Security Council, which will ask the agencies questions it needs answered.
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There is a link to pandemics, like COVID-19, and a warmer world, coupled with human encroachment into wildlife habitats, and greater possibilities of animal-to-human virus transmissions.
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Now, a billionaire developer of software and artificial intelligence is teaming up with top universities and companies to see if A.I. can help curb the current and future pandemics.
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First there was the groom who called Ms. Gregoli in secret so as not to disturb the bride because, as it turns out, wedding insurance doesn't cover global pandemics.
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Even before meeting with Gates, Trump declined to renew $600 million of funding to the Center for Disease Control to prevent global pandemics, which had been approved under Obama.
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Further influenza pandemics were reported in 1957/58 and 1968/69 but in both cases the number of extra deaths was low and there was no discernible economic impact.
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Further influenza pandemics were reported in 1957/58 and 1968/69 but in both cases the number of extra deaths was low and there was no discernible economic impact.
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Investments in global health such as the Global Fund also build health infrastructure, helping prevent emerging pandemics (such as Ebola) from raging out of control or reaching US shores.
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Phelps is the founder of Emergency Management & Safety Solutions in San Francisco, where she advises companies like Whole Foods, Nike and Starbucks on crisis management plans, including possible pandemics.
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Pandemics have recurred throughout history with devastating consequences, from the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages to the Spanish flu a century ago to HIV/AIDS in our own lifetimes.
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The likeliest risks include nuclear war and pandemics (both natural and deliberately engineered), followed by disasters stemming from runaway climate change, geoengineering run amok, and disruptions posed by artificial intelligence.
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The likeliest risks include nuclear war and pandemics (both natural and deliberately engineered), followed by disasters stemming from runaway climate change, geoengineering gone amok, and disruptions posed by artificial intelligence.
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We've seen the way pandemics can spiral out of control: as with the HIV/AIDS epidemic, SARS in 2002, H1N1 flu in 2009, MERS in 2012, and Ebola in 2014.
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Public health experts believe we are at greater risk than ever of experiencing large-scale outbreaks and global pandemics like those we've seen before: SARS, swine flu, Ebola and Zika.
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The results of both cases are pending, but they raise questions about how quarantines can violate people's individual rights — and how they should be handled in current and future pandemics.
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This introduces a completely novel existential risk scenario to the list of things we have to worry about, including asteroid and comet impacts, supervolcanic eruptions, nuclear war, and global pandemics.
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These countries, governed ineffectively and often repressively, are generating the civil wars, extremism, refugees, pandemics and other crises that have roiled Europe and that threaten American security, noted retired Gen.
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"The world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war," Bill Gates said last year, on the 100-year anniversary of the Spanish flu.
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At least 16 different "A" influenza subtypes — the kind responsible for pandemics in humans — are found in aquatic birds (and two additional influenza A subtypes were recently discovered in bats).
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American-led innovation is an antidote to the threat of disease and key to eliminating HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and pandemics that will emerge as Ebola did several years ago.
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The earliest documented instance of this happening was the Plague of Justinian (it's also been called the First Pandemic, though there were probably earlier pandemics involving typhoid and other diseases).
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Over the next century, the Commission predicts, the world will experience at least one pandemic – and there's a 22001 percent chance of experiencing four or more pandemics in this period.
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In 1918-1919, the "Spanish" Flu — one of the worst pandemics in human history — infected nearly a third of the world's population, killing an estimated thirty to fifty million people.
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Mr. Bolton has also taken over direct responsibility for managing everything from cyber and terrorist attacks to hurricanes and pandemics — tasks previously assigned to another top-level White House official.
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"There will be much more robust business continuity and contingency planning in response to pandemics like this," said Kristen Jaconi, a risk management expert at the University of Southern California.
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Instead of simply pouring more money into the Pentagon, we need to develop new capacities to combat foreign disinformation, transition away from carbon fuels and stop the spread of pandemics.
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Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, also pushed out Tom Bossert, the White House homeland security adviser who had called for a robust strategy against pandemics and bioweapons attacks.
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"In the largest two pandemics of the 20th century, around 30% to 40% of people became symptomatically infected, and that's lower than the total proportion that got infected," he said.
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The president of the United States and Vice President Pence told Mr. Fauci, one of the leading scientists in the world on pandemics, he was not able to speak out.
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School officials developed contingency plans for remote learning after weathering pandemics including SARS and the H1N1 swine flu, said Bob Farrace, spokesman for the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
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"We didn't just create a position but an office at the NSC to combat pandemics precisely like covid19 [coronavirus]," tweeted Susan Rice, who was former President Obama's national security adviser.
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" Recent disease-enhancing experiments, he said, "have given us some modest scientific knowledge and done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics, and yet risked creating an accidental pandemic.
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"One thing's for sure: No matter what your framework is, even if it's that human benefits outside the country count for zero, stopping pandemics is a smart thing," he told STAT.
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In a race to prevent future deadly pandemics, scientists are trying to pinpoint the animals and regions where the next Ebola or Zika might arise — before the viruses start harming people.
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LONDON (Reuters) - World Bank funding instruments issued to help emerging countries swiftly tackle pandemics have come under the spotlight after the latest deadly Ebola outbreak has yet to trigger a payout.
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The WHO already faces resource constraints as it confronts an unprecedented number of global health challenges, from new global pandemics to the risk of less effective cures due to antibiotic resistance.
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Although the "dread factor" of pandemics tends to be lower than wars and terrorist attacks, they have resulted in some of the most significant episodes of mass death in human history.
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Climate change is especially important in this regard, as it will exacerbate most of the other ills of our current world, including resource-based conflict, pandemics, extreme weather, and food insecurity.
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The possible pandemics we face are based on diseases that could emerge at any time; slashing budgets self-destructively courts disaster by eliminating one of our most effective national security programs.
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What strikes me is that when you talk about the origins of pandemics, you talk on this macro level — like our environmental and social policies — rather than on the micro level.
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As a newly-elected senator, Barack Obama joined a Republican colleague in demanding the US government gird for global pandemics that pose "direct and immediate threats" to American security and prosperity.
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I had studied and taught about the sociology of pandemics and knew from the SARS experience in 2003 that health officials in many high-risk Asian countries had advised wearing masks.
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I had studied and taught about the sociology of pandemics and knew from the SARS experience in 2003 that health officials in many high-risk Asian countries had advised wearing masks.
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According to the report, a score of zero in these sub-indicators mean that their research found no national public health emergency plan for pandemics or emergency operations center in place.
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In May 2018, the president abolished the office in the White House responsible for fighting pandemics, and appropriations for the Center for Disease Control have declined every year of his presidency.
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While it is true that autocracies have an easier time imposing draconian measures on large populations, it is also undeniable that open societies are better at preventing the emergence of pandemics.
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Like so many other public health challenges -- from lethal pandemics to the climate emergency -- the only effective strategy of dealing with the catastrophic health impact of a nuclear war is prevention.
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The White House's Twitter account later Wednesday noted that a number of past pandemics had been known by the places where they originated, or where they were believed to have originated.
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Across recorded history, the periodic compressions of inequality brought about by mass mobilization warfare, transformative revolution, state failure, and pandemics have invariably dwarfed any known instances of equalization by entirely peaceful means.
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Turning to the agenda of a G20 summit to be held in July, she engaged Mr Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, on the dire risks posed by global pandemics and antibiotic resistance.
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Therefore, the US must address the threat of pandemics in cooperation with all other nations and with multilateral institutions such as the World Health Organization, the UN Security Council, UNICEF and more.
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The FAO officials said African countries should start preparing now to contain the risks of pandemics by training more veterinarians, improving access to clean water and regulating the market before it booms.
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So far, Covid-19 has demonstrated all these features of a contagious crisis in spades, as well as one more, the most dire: the failed promise to revolutionize our response to pandemics.
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Warnings in the Trump era The warnings continued after Trump became President and installed his own appointees in key positions that deal with pandemics, like the Department of Health and Human Services.
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And some pandemics -- like HIV -- continue to afflict us, after more than half a million deaths in the US and and 32 million worldwide, despite developing drugs that now keep people alive.
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According to the study published in the Public Library of Science, flu pandemics are most likely to occur during the late-spring to early-summer months, after the seasonal flu has peaked.
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But having phones we constantly touch — before, during, and after we use the restroom — and then press against our faces could create a vector for infection absent from pandemics of past centuries.
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If we don't pay now to both mitigate the impending coronavirus pandemic globally and drive down the risk of future pandemics, we will spend a lot later — in American lives and dollars.
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The potential impact from COVID-19 provides a general template of how future pandemics could affect military capabilities and activities, albeit with different timelines and severity of impact depending on the disease.
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Supply chains would restart in a "reasonable" time period and infection rates would follow the precedent set by past pandemics, Jack Janasiewicz, portfolio strategist and manager at Natixis Investment Managers Solutions, said.
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It is ironic that the AI which has caused such consternation with facial recognition, deepfakes, and such is now at the front lines of helping scientists confront Covid-19 and future pandemics.
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Previous pandemics, including of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, in 2002 and 2003 and of Ebola in West Africa in 2014, show that these three things cannot be taken for granted.
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Public-private partnerships are nothing new for government, but a Bloomberg campaign spokesperson said that the candidate sees them as necessary across a range of issues, from hacking and cybercrime to pandemics.
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It could also fund research into raging, poorly understood pandemics like Lyme Disease, which receives a tiny fraction ($31 million) of the annual research money earmarked for countless, often ridiculous military projects.
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In the past decade or so, leading investigators have begun to incorporate social networks into their models, trying to identify and analyze patterns of individual behavior that amplify or mute potential pandemics.
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If we know that globalization, climate change, and other factors are only heightening the risk of potentially devastating pandemics, why do we subject health officials to what has become an annual scramble?
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Gerry Lemcke of Swiss Re, which offers parametric insurance against pandemics, flight delays and hurricane damage to coral reefs, sees it as working rather like derivatives in finance, which have a strike price.
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These simple precautions can help prevent pandemics and are most important in crowded areas like airports that have a high volume of people travelling to and from many different parts of the world.
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Sustaining U.S. leadership in the perpetual war against outbreaks, pan-epidemics, and truly global pandemics is essential for our own protection as well as a more secure and stable world outside our borders.
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More recent pandemics include the 1957-58 "Asian flu;" the 1968 Hong Kong pandemic, which killed at least 1 million people; and the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, from which an estimated 284,000 died.
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Some experts have criticized the Trump administration for seeking reductions in funding for global health programs that they contend would hurt the country's ability to prevent and respond to biological threats like pandemics.
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Munich Re, which helped develop the insurance component of the PEF in conjunction with Swiss Re and catastrophe risk modeller AIR Worldwide, said pandemics were among the most likely uninsured risks to occur.
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London (CNN Business)Businesses around the world are facing catastrophic losses as the novel coronavirus forces them to scale back operations or shut down entirely, and most don't have insurance cover for pandemics.
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Bankruptcies are expected to mount as measures to contain the spread of the virus shut down entire industries and wipe out consumer demand, revealing just how exposed the global economy is to pandemics.
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While the coronavirus is certainly a unique challenge, the report is worth reading just to get a sense of how the US government thinks about the threat of pandemics and responses to them.
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Some books aren't about pandemics or the apocalypse at all, but speak to the couped-up, stir-crazy feelings we're all having as we social distance and wait for the storm to pass.
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"As human beings, we face huge existential challenges in the form of pandemics, climate change, the threats coming down the pipe from automation and AI" says Torch co-founder and CEO Cameron Yarbrough.
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This came not long after John Bolton, the national security adviser, pushed out Tom Bossert, the White House homeland security adviser who had pushed for a robust strategy against pandemics and biological attacks.
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Even when they're frightening, as Contagion undoubtedly is, movies about pandemics and isolation are acts of imagination that refuse to accept that reality has a monopoly on illness or despair, horror or pain.
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Breaking it is our biggest challenge, but is necessary if we are to minimize the damage done by the current crisis and prevent future more dangerous threats from climate change, conflicts and pandemics.
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Flu pandemics occurred periodically during the twentieth century, most notably the 1957 Asian flu, the 1968 Hong Kong Flu, and the 2003 SARS outbreak, but they had little effect on the United States.
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One reason the bellwether for pandemics is influenza is the fear of having a higher-mortality flu, when we know that flu spreads so rapidly and infects so many people around the world.
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In 2016, Miller wrote an article for The American Interest called "The Age of Designer Plagues," in which he described a possibly inevitable "Age of Bioengineered Viral Pandemics and Collapse" on the horizon.
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The best chance for successfully dealing with these overarching issues — as well as other transnational issues like pandemics, terrorism and cybersecurity — is for the world's two largest national economies to catalyze global action.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - - The World Bank on Saturday said it was launching a $73 million, fast-disbursing insurance fund to combat deadly pandemics in poor countries, creating the world's first insurance market for pandemic risk.
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Then there are the challenges of drug-resistant bacteria, or global pandemics that seemingly come out of nowhere (like Zika)—but maybe most importantly, the fact that, research aside, humans don't always play along.
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But the priority should be to advance vaccines for diseases that are rare today, but which scientists know could easily become pandemics in the future: Lassa fever, say, Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever or Marburg.
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"Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage," said Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust global health charity.
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Speaking ahead of Friday's first meeting of health ministers from the Group of 20 leading developed and developing economies, Hermann Groehe said more collaboration was needed to minimize the risk posed by possible pandemics.
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The company's chief executive said that the new policies will provide financing in the wake of deadly pandemics and encourage multi-national corporations and nation-states to invest in preventing the spread of disease.
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"Unlike the weather, which we're all accustomed to and incorporating forecasts into decision making, with pandemics we actually influence the outcome," Caitlin Rivers, a professor at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Vox.
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In all pandemics people are forced to make the decisions that doctors in Italy are now forced to make — withholding care from some of those who are suffering and leaving them to their fate.
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Pandemics have begun in our borders, like the 2003 monkeypox outbreak stemming from U.S. imports of small mammals that spread to pets, and we reported the first cases of swine flu — H1N1 — in 85033.
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In the last 40 years, the worst human pandemics and epidemics — HIV, SARS-CoV, avian influenza, swine influenza, Ebola virus and Zika virus — all stemmed from trading and consuming animals and destroying their habitat.
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The third wave, beginning in the winter of 193-'19, subsided by that summer, and the virus likely lurked around for years, not causing pandemics because most survivors had been exposed and developed antibodies.
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My work shows that if we want to reduce the impact that pandemics, epidemics or natural disasters have on food insecurity, we need to completely reframe our perception of how to reduce food insecurity.
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While allies pointed to the coronavirus's origins and defended the label, critics have claimed it was fueling racist behavior against Asians and that previous pandemics were never referred to their suspected country of origin.
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A person living with diabetes must be extra vigilant about common infections — not to mention novel global pandemics — because diabetes can compromise the immune and metabolic systems that help most people fight off viruses.
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Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, said he has no knowledge about the economic or market impacts from the virus, but Bridgewater does know pandemics have happened in the past and have had major impacts.
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This works to discover viral pathogens before large-scale human pandemics occur, possibly posing a serious threat to the U.S. It funds programs related to avian flu in Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Bangladesh and Egypt.
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My point is that people have been trying to forget about pandemics for almost a millennium — the urge to hide from the truth and binge watch comedy (or write "The Canterbury Tales") is strong.
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The American government pays 60 percent of the $4 billion disbursed each year to stop pandemics; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation alone is the third-biggest donor, covering 10 percent of the costs.
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One of the most useful things about the universal flu shot is that if it works out as hoped, it will also protect against flu pandemics like the one that killed Sonn's great-grandparents.
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We've led the charge in reshaping global health, including delivering care to more than 2202 million people living with HIV, reducing malaria cases by one-third and controlling global pandemics like Ebola and Zika.
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A new global agreement to prevent disasters, adopted in Sendai, Japan, last March, included the need to address biological hazards such as pandemics - largely in response to the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
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The plague bacterium, spread by fleas and rats, caused three devastating pandemics — the Justinian plague of the sixth century, the Black Death in 14th-century Europe and the global pandemic that erupted in the 1890s.
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The scenario is somewhat analogous to modern pandemics, like the devastating death toll among indigenous New World populations in the wake of European colonization, though Houldcroft cautioned that the latter example was much more extreme.
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"The more we understand about the behaviour of past pandemics and outbreaks, the greater our understanding of how modern pathogens might work and spread, and this information will ultimately help in their control," Poinar said.
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Pandemics, if they happen, will almost certainly be global, which means that the US has a strong interest in developing local expertise in pandemic management and building strong ties between US researchers and local researchers.
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For many infectious-disease pandemics, the primary case will never be known, said Dr. Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University in New York.
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Michael Osterholm, one of the world's leading experts on pandemics at the University of Minnesota, said the government needs to start looking at vaccines for civilians "as a security procurement," just as the military does.
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Additionally, we believe that the US should commit to pandemic preparedness by creating a position of authority within the White House that transcends administrations and elevates pandemics as existential threats to a national security priority.
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IT'S NOT LIKE THE FLU PANDEMICS THAT KILL TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, BUT IT IS AGAIN AN ILLUSTRATION THAT THERE ARE MANY DOWNSIDE RISKS TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY THAT WE HAVE NOT REALLY BUFFERED.
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The science, tools and approaches developed to rapidly detect and respond to malaria outbreaks can also be leveraged to track other infectious diseases and prevent global pandemics, as recently illustrated by the response to Zika.
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What makes matters worse, flying solo is exactly what we don't need in an age distinguished more and more by the global nature of issues, whether climate change, trade, nuclear proliferation, pandemics, cyberwarfare or immigration.
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And climate change is making future infectious pandemics not only more likely, by expanding the territories where disease-carrying mosquitoes thrive, but also making populations less able to combat the damage from an infectious pandemic.
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ASPEN, Colorado (Reuters) - The Trump administration is developing the first comprehensive strategy to defend the United States against disease pandemics and biological attacks by terrorists, the top White House homeland security official said on Thursday.
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Nonetheless, when comparing the ever-changing story of Covid-22 to pandemics past, I feel like quoting Yogi Berra: It's "déjà vu all over again," albeit a nightmarish blend of several déjàs vu into one.
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Frank Snowden, the Yale historian who wrote "Epidemics and Society," argues that pandemics hold up a mirror to society and force us to ask basic questions: What is possible imminent death trying to tell us?
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At the same time, they ignore the main problem — the poor state of transnational governance and decision-making that are vitally important for tackling climate and migrant crises, pandemics and economic crimes like tax evasion.
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But so far, Covid-19 appears much deadlier than seasonal flu, and quite possibly deadlier than the flu pandemics of 1957 and 1968, each of which killed more than 1 million people around the world.
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"We feel like we have to do something," said Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University and author of Be Very Afraid: The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats.
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Health care workers often rely on public transportation to get to work, and have cited unreliable transportation as a major source of absenteeism during pandemics, which strains hospital resources when they need workers the most.
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"And what we did is set up, in the White House, ... an office that was responsible for managing pandemics, managing global health threats that was shut down two years ago by President Trump," Rhodes said.
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In an era when vaccine-denialism is on the rise, when public health infrastructure has been gutted, and when our federal government has essentially abandoned serious efforts to plan for pandemics, we're at serious risk.
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"These simple precautions can help prevent pandemics and are most important in crowded areas like airports that have a high volume of people traveling to and from many different parts of the world," he added.
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While there is evidence that school closures helped slow the spread of disease in past pandemics, public health officials have dissenting views about how and whether school closures should be used to combat the coronavirus.
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Whether current anxiety develops into a full-blown panic depends on whether the federal government has learned the final lesson of past pandemics: withholding information, distorting facts, and downplaying the threat always makes matters worse.
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One chart shows how the Wuhan coronavirus compares to other major outbreaks and pandemics in the last 50 years'Contagion' is now one of the most popular movies on iTunes because of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
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His administration crippled America's ability to respond to pandemics a while ago, so it's clear his interest has never been in solving problems like the one coronavirus poses — he just wants everything to seem fine.
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Across the board, from politicians to the public, we treat pandemics as a disaster-response issue: We wait for them to happen and hope a vaccine or drug can be developed quickly in their aftermath.
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Just three wealthy countries — Finland, Saudi Arabia and the United States — have gone through two external evaluations of their readiness to face pandemics, one for human diseases and one for animal outbreaks, the study found.
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While disease, epidemics, and pandemics have always existed, greater population density and the ability to travel anywhere in the world within 36 hours means disease can spread rapidly through a country and then go worldwide.
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Plague has killed tens of millions of people around the world in three major pandemics, with about a third of Europe's population wiped out in the 1300s by bubonic plague, known as the Black Death.
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Research suggests that it would cost the global economy $22012 billion in regular annual spending to protect against disease outbreaks, but the emergency response to pandemics is much costlier, at more than $2215 billion a year.
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Dr Gostic and Dr Lloyd-Smith hope this finding will help predict which age groups are most vulnerable in future pandemics, and therefore who should go to the head of the queue for things like vaccinations.
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America's National Academy of Medicine suggests that just $4.5 billion a year (equivalent to about 3% of what rich countries spend on development aid) devoted to preparing for pandemics would make the world a lot safer.
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"Pandemics don't respect national boundaries, so we have a common interest in strengthening our defenses," said Peter Sands of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for business and government at the Harvard Kennedy school, who chaired the commission.
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As for pandemics, recent incidents like the Ebola and SARS outbreaks have shown that scientists working with the international community can effectively contain the spread of pathogenic microbes that might otherwise have caused a global disaster.
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Despite King's thoughts on the subject, the 2011 movie "Contagion" is rising in popularity, particularly on the iTunes charts and on piracy sites, showing that demand for fictional depictions of pandemics could be on the rise.
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The Department of Homeland Security stopped updating its annual models of the havoc that pandemics would wreak on America's critical infrastructure in 2017, according to current and former DHS officials with direct knowledge of the matter.
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It has been criticized for acting too slowly once it learned of the threat the virus posed, for eliminating public health positions meant to guard against pandemics, and Trump himself has been censured for spreading misinformation.
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To prepare for annual flu seasons, as well as possible pandemics, the US government has invested tens or hundreds of millions of dollars over the past 21 years to ensure there are enough eggs for vaccines.
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A 2016 paper by the Los Alamos National Laboratory analyzed the results of dozens of studies from around the world to determine what factors influence the adoption of protective behaviors, specifically within the context of pandemics.
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A 2016 paper by the Los Alamos National Laboratory analyzed the results of dozens of studies from around the world to determine what factors influence the adoption of protective behaviors, specifically within the context of pandemics.
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Mr. Trump is the first president since 1941 not to name a science adviser, a position created during World War II to guide the Oval Office on technical matters ranging from nuclear warfare to global pandemics.
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Not only is public transportation probably not where people are actually getting sick, but avoiding it—or, in extreme cases, limiting service—has serious consequences in the health care community's ability to respond to such pandemics.
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Steven Taylor, a University of British Columbia professor and author of "The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease," told me that some people quarantined during the SARS epidemic developed PTSD.
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The failure of our elected government and political leaders to respond rapidly and effectively in the early days of the HIV epidemic is partly why it has become one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
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Olga Jonas, a senior fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute who spent 33 years at the World Bank, described pandemic bonds as a "publicity stunt" that will not help to stop outbreaks or prevent pandemics.
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Two of the devastating flu pandemics of the 2000th century — the Asian flu of 227 and the Hong Kong flu of 193 — both originated in China and left a trail of about three million deaths worldwide.
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It is worth remembering that disease, or the fear of disease, can bring out the worst in humanity — pandemics often feed scapegoating (Jews were widely blamed for the Black Death), creating a fertile field for demagogues.
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It includes funding for scientific research, including biomedical research, and space exploration, as well as health programs (other than Medicare and Medicaid) that fund public health activities such as monitoring for pandemics and keeping food safe.
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"I'm not an expert in the pandemics, but you can look at previous examples like the SARS outbreak which also originated from Asia," said Cristian Maggio, Head of Emerging Markets Strategy at TD Securities in London.
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Rubenstein continued, "I worry about geopolitical things we can't anticipate, the so-called black swans," suggesting a slew of potential threats from a "9/11 type event" to pandemics and conflicts involving Iran, Russia and China.
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In the AD 210s, at the apex of Roman dominance, the empire fell victim to one of history's first recorded pandemics — an event known as the "Antonine Plague" (after the family name of the ruling dynasty).
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Mrs Merkel has some carrots: insisting that Britain should not be punished for Brexit, resisting Mr Trump's irritable barbs in Washington and enrapturing him during that visit with hair-raising talk of the dangers of global pandemics.
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To deal with these looming problems, the authors propose a number of solutions, including nuclear non-proliferation treaties, increased planning for serious pandemics, efforts to reduce carbon emissions, and investigations into risks posed by AI and biotechnologies.
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This could one day shed light on how genetic factors influence the emergence and spread of pandemics—and since plague has re-emerged in some geographic regions, that could definitely help save many lives in the future.
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Most modern biomedical advances, especially the vaccines used to eradicate disease and protect against pandemics such as Zika, Ebola and the flu, rely on the same molecular biology tools that are used to create genetically modified organisms.
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The investment required is just $1 per person per year in low-and middle-income countries, while the annual global cost of severe pandemics is $570 billion, or 0.7 percent of global income, according to the report.
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More than ever, at a time when terrorism, cybersecurity threats, disease pandemics and refugee crises can disrupt our lives, we need the kind of platform for close international cooperation and collective action that the U.N. can provide.
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But I tell all these kids the same thing: whether your particular issue is global warming, or food, or water or cybersecurity or healthcare or pandemics, where are we going to get energy — pick your potential crisis.
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Doubling-down on America's scientific leadership and investing in a "Manhattan project" for the next generation of technologies to detect, prevent and treat pathogens most likely to cause large outbreaks or pandemics that spread around the world.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Investing less than $0.72 a year for each person would make the world far more resilient to potentially devastating pandemics, according to a global health expert group convened in the wake of the Ebola crisis.
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While it is true that hoarding supplies serves no one, the Department of Homeland Security has recommended that Americans keep a two-week supply of food and water in pandemics like the one we are currently experiencing.
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Among the major contributing factors to Kiribati's low rank are its lack of real-time surveillance and reporting for disease, no national public health emergency plan for pandemics, and lack of equipment available for a health pandemic.
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"And so what you're seeing now is when you have really generations of concentrated poverty … that impact a place, a city like Detroit, when you have pandemics, it's going to hit those places harder," he said. 3.
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"Pandemics increase paranoia and stigma," said Dr. Rohan Radhakrishna, the deputy health officer of Contra Costa County, across the Bay from San Francisco, which provides only the total number of cases in the county on its website.
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After the three pandemics of the 20th century, the British virologist W.I.B. Beveridge penned a warning about influenza: "A spark in a remote corner of the world," he wrote, "could start a fire that scorches us all."
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The fight over the scale and scope of the EU's economic response to the pandemics pits Italy and Spain - seeking far-reaching measures - against Germany and the Netherlands, demanding to spare resources for later, if need be.
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The organization officially defines pandemic as "the worldwide spread of a new disease," noting that "viruses that have caused past pandemics typically originated from animal influenza viruses," which appears to be the case with this novel coronavirus.
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At the time of the outbreak, World War I was coming to an end and public health authorities had no or few official protocols in place for dealing with viral pandemics, which contributed to its large impact.
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The Centers for Disease Control's interim guidance on influenza pandemics—last updated during the 2016 Ebola outbreak—recommends transit workers focus on surfaces that riders usually touch, like turnstiles, door handles, handrails, and electronic fare-card machines.
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A Foreign Policy report late last month stated that "the United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic," primarily because the Trump White House fired the entire chain-of-command that handled responses to pandemics.
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The lack of transparency from China, combined with a lack of knowledge about what the virus was and a lack of preparedness among countries in the region in dealing with pandemics, all contributed to SARS's deadly impact.
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But as the world struggles to respond to Covid-19, we risk missing the really big picture: Pandemics are on the rise, and we need to contain the process that drives them, not just the individual diseases.
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The challenges facing us are, to an ever-increasing degree, transnational in nature — from terrorism to proliferation, from failing states to fanaticism in the name of faith, from climate change to mass migration, from pandemics to cyberattacks.
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"World Bank President Kim has done excellent work, including in the bank's contributions in areas such as financing of climate protection, prevention of pandemics and in support of countries that are taking in Syria refugees," she said.
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Pandemics and bio-error The most striking are gaps in the ability of the health care system to care for a mass influx of patients during a major outbreak or attack and lack of a coordinated biosurveillance system.
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The World Bank has said its experts are in discussions with Chinese authorities and could help provide assistance on disease surveillance, food safety, lessons from previous pandemics and analysis of the effect of the outbreak on China's economy.
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The regime's inclination to favor government secrecy over the free flow of essential public information was a major factor in the spread of earlier pandemics and public health crises with SARS, swine flu, bird flu, and HIV/AIDS.
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KIM: YEAH, INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL SAY THAT PANDEMICS ARE A HUGE DOWNSIDE RISK TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO IT. AND THEN NOW ZIKA HAS ILLUSTRATED ONCE AGAIN WHY THIS IS SUCH A CONCERN.
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As Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch told Nature following the news of the end of the funding embargo , gain-of-function research has "done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics, yet they risked creating an accidental pandemic."
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Related: Zika Virus, 'Ghostbusters,' and the Strange New Normal of Tropical Disease Pandemics The CDC has not changed its current guidance regarding Zika, which still stands at advising pregnant women to avoid areas where the virus is spreading.
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Third, future American leaders will find Europe is our most capable and willing partner in tackling the biggest threats to global security: climate change; drugand cybercrime cartels; terrorism; pandemics and mass migration from Africa and the Middle East.
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"My boyfriend is obsessed with history and science so the coronavirus — and the history of pandemics in general — is actually something he's been reading up on for a while and has been interested in for months," she said.
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David S. Jones, a professor of the culture of medicine at Harvard University, explained that the notion of "blame" in pandemics is a common tactic for governments to exploit divisions of religion, race, ethnicity, class, or gender identity.
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In articles in medical journals Science, Epidemiology, and Lancet Infectious Disease, epidemiologists suggested it could be used as a model for how human populations responded to pandemics and a good way to teach people how viral infections work.
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That was how people hundreds of years ago described the Black Death, which began sweeping across Europe in the 21986th century, killing up to 22005% of the continent's population in one of the worst pandemics in human history.
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Scarred by the lives and assets lost in the 2003 outbreak, Indonesia is now relying on local-level monitoring and testing to keep pandemics at bay, working with international agencies including the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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There are now tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, and we're proceeding at great speed toward other ways to endanger our civilization — from climate change to engineered pandemics to artificial intelligence to other, even more speculative future technologies.
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Interest in viruses and pandemics resurged in the 1980s (news of a fatal new disease affecting gay men first broke in 1981) and remains a perennial fear: since 2003, at least 20 apocalyptic novels have taken up the theme.
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According to a global review on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), drug-resistant infections are "one of the biggest health threats that mankind currently faces" and there are fears of pandemics becoming more of a norm as antibiotics lose their efficacy.
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But in the case of pandemics, the more likely scenario is not a bad guy with a bug, but a naturally occurring infectious disease like we saw with Ebola in 2014, or worse yet, a new strain of flu.
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The paid sick leave requirement is narrowly focused on the coronavirus; it does not even require paid sick leave during future pandemics — a contemptible signal that political leaders are already committed to not learning the lessons of this one.
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Standard travel insurance—like the kind airlines offer at checkout—can be handy if you need to cancel a previously booked trip, but the list of covered reasons to cancel is limited and does not include epidemics and pandemics.
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From six and 2600 people at Los Alamos were focused on pandemics and a total of 219 to 70 people at DHS and the national labs had some role in the models, according to one of the former officials.
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While public health officials are out there at all hours desperately trying to save humanity from potential pandemics — including the latest threat, the new coronavirus — fiction writers can spend entire careers threatening to murder us by the same means.
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A century ago, President Woodrow Wilson used the 1918 Spanish flu to exert more control over the economy, said Max Skidmore, a professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City who has studied presidents and pandemics.
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The essential nature of military forces in conducting foreign and domestic security policies, as well as their role in directly supporting humanitarian response efforts, make them one of the key vulnerabilities of modern states at a time of pandemics.
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Public health experts say this can actually contribute to the spread of pandemics by causing people in search of goods and services to travel from closed-down areas with high infection rates to more open areas with lower rates.
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While all of those things are supposed to keep the disease from spreading, they're also narratives of personal responsibility, a ruggedly individual approach to pandemics where everyone is supposed to stockpile their own supplies and manage their own infectiousness.
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But the reality is this: China's mishandling and the ensuing silence from the international community is emblematic of how the global system governing the international response to pandemics fails to work, half a dozen global health experts told Vox.
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But he has not been attuned to pandemic threats: In 2018 the White House removed the position on the National Security Council to fight pandemics, while seeking to scale back anti-pandemic work to about 10 countries from 49.
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Why would some risks -- terrorism, climate change, pandemics -- be viewed as national security issues and yet the one most consequential means by which you all were at risk of getting killed -- gun violence -- was somehow removed from the discussion?
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"For too long, we have allowed a cycle of panic and neglect when it comes to pandemics: we ramp up efforts when there is a serious threat, then quickly forget about them when the threat subsides," the authors wrote.
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"For too long, we have allowed a cycle of panic and neglect when it comes to pandemics: we ramp up efforts when there is a serious threat, then quickly forget about them when the threat subsides," the report says.
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When it comes to pandemics, such data can help researchers identify which areas an infected individual may have traveled, and which person or persons in their friend circles they may have had contact with before or after falling ill.
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When there's a looming disease crisis on the horizon, the World Health Organization convenes a panel of experts under the International Health Regulations (which are a set of laws that govern global responses to pandemics involving 196 member countries).
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The cautious note is intriguing: Ms. Shah suggests that the real danger with pandemics is that humans often start to treat them as mere inconveniences, rather than crises (which is how many Africans treat malaria and many Americans treat the flu).
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But if this were true, if disease was the culprit, wonders Reséndez, why is there no mention of any major disease, much less pandemics, in the New World until 1519, a full 25 years after Columbus first set down on Hispaniola?
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They also point to newer health threats, such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, bird flu and swine flu, as well as rising obesity in rich countries—to say nothing of the possibility of fresh pandemics, social and political unrest and natural disasters.
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It's a little predictable, but the show is so ... It's stylized so well and the dialogue is so perfectly executed that it's really a delight to watch and a nice break from stories about Iowa caucus apps failing and pandemics.
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Moreover, experts have warned that the world is at greater risk than ever of experiencing large-scale pandemics such as Zika, that affected 24 regions in 2015 and 2016, and Ebola, that claimed 11,000 lives in West Africa in 2014.
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Given the challenges we're facing, from climate change and a melting Arctic to the risk of global pandemics, or workplace automation, it's arguably more important than ever to have a basic understanding of science, and trusted sources to learn about it.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cities planning for weather disasters, pandemics or civil unrest need to take steps to support local farmers and protect key transport routes so as to secure food and water supplies in a crisis, experts said on Wednesday.
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The new rule is aimed at preventing the severe breakdown in patient care that followed disasters including Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, while also strengthening the ability to provide services during other types of emergencies, such as pandemics and terrorist attacks.
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Of all the modern board games that constitute the current golden age of tabletop gaming—your Settlers of Catans, your Ticket to Rides, your Pandemics—one looms larger than all the others, like a mythical icon made of dice and cardboard.
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But if these trends continue (as they likely will), terrorists and lone wolves of the future will almost certainly have the ability to engineer pandemics of global proportions, and perhaps even more devastating than anything our species has previously encountered.
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Study: The Global Macroeconomic Impacts of COVID-19: Seven Scenarios, Australian National University Building on modeling of the economic impact of 193–2003 SARS and 2006 flu pandemics, this paper models seven possible global economic scenarios in the wake of coronavirus.
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Phelps, the founder of Emergency Management & Safety Solutions in San Francisco, where she advises companies like Whole Foods, Nike and Starbucks on crisis management plans, including possible pandemics, says these are some of the things she sees people waste money on.
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But some former U.S. officials say that by kicking China while it's down, the Trump team is wasting a golden opportunity to build trust with an increasingly powerful country whose cooperation it will need to tackle future transnational challenges, including pandemics.
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LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - Business interruption insurance is not designed for pandemics, and if Britain wants businesses to have more cover in future for such events, this would require "significant state partnership", the Association of British Insurers said on Friday.
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"The leader in global pandemics and protecting the United States starts at the federal level," said Nick Crossley, the director of emergency management in Hamilton County, Ohio, and past president of the U.S. Council of International Association of Emergency Managers.
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While school districts may not be ready for widespread remote learning, many of the larger districts have had plans for the possibility of pandemics for years, according to Chris Dorn, a school safety consultant with the nonprofit Safe Havens International.
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While school districts may not be ready for widespread remote learning, many of the larger districts have had plans for the possibility of pandemics for years, according to Chris Dorn, a school safety consultant with the nonprofit Safe Havens International.
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To minimize the strain on overstressed acute-care hospitals, supportive nursing care might have to be provided, in makeshift facilities and patients' homes, as was done during severe pandemics in the past, such as the Great Influenza of 1918-19.
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" Speaking at an event hosted by Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on April 27, 2018, Gates said he believed "the world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war.
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The government would receive more funding to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria, as well as work on medical countermeasures and other tools to fight pandemics and health threats, but the plan does not specify how much money would go towards these efforts.
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And, with a new viral infection sweeping the globe, one that's not the flu but nonetheless shares some things in common with past pandemics, it's especially relevant to lend a critical eye to how viruses and infections could influence our minds.
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Nuclear war is prominent among the risks they consider; they're also worried about climate change, pandemics, AI, and threats we can't yet anticipate — just like, 10 years before the atomic bomb, only a few scientists had any inkling it was possible.
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"We know from our service in uniform that many of the crises our nation faces do not have military solutions alone -- from confronting violent extremist groups like ISIS in the Middle East and North Africa to preventing pandemics like Ebola," the generals wrote.
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BOTH "mini-epidemics" of seasonal flu, which happen most years, and much larger pandemics, of which 1918's was the worst example, are the result of an arms race between the influenza virus and the immune systems of the animals it infects.
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Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are infecting willing subjects with influenza A (the infamous H1N1 virus, which has caused pandemics) and closely monitoring their symptoms to better understand how the virus works and how to control it.
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This makes sense, given that influenza B drifts, or mutates, at a rate two to three times slower than influenza A. Influenza B tends to cause a less severe reaction than type A flu virus, and is not capable of causing pandemics.
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They complement efforts like the BBC Pandemic project, which deployed a mobile app across the UK to collect data on people's travels and interactions to model potential pandemics; these approaches, however, could miss changes in mobility and interaction patterns during an outbreak.
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She frames the narrative around the journey of cholera, "an old hand at pandemics", which terrorised London, New York and Paris in the 19th century, to draw out worrying parallels between the mistakes of the past and today's treatment of pandemic threats.
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So while advances in the field of synthetic biology will make it easier for us to invent therapeutics and other technologies that can defend us from pandemics, those very same advances may allow state and nonstate actors to design increasingly harmful pathogens.
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"It's helped us build a improved and stable military-to-military relationship with China, led to cooperation in fighting infectious diseases and pandemics like Ebola, in expanding Chinese support for peacekeeping and for our cooperation in Afghanistan and other global hotspots," he added.
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The use of vaccine technologies and disease surveillance is very low across most of the world because the dangers posed by pandemics are "out of sight, out of mind", said Robert Glasser, head of the United Nations' Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
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The role of national security adviser has grown in power and influence in recent years, with the Bush and Obama administrations vesting the office with great authority on matters including military operations, nuclear proliferation, diplomacy, foreign aid and responses to global pandemics.
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That seemed clear when Mr. Trump's National Security Council decided, more than a year ago, to merge the office that was preparing for pandemics into one working to limit weapons of mass destruction — two very different problems, requiring vastly different kinds of responses.
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The second is that we all just had a normal flu, and there is some kind of mass psychology during pandemics that makes people who fall sick with other illnesses experience some kind of sympathetic symptomology that mirrors the more dangerous disease.
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It was perhaps the most concrete and visible transition exercise that dealt with the possibility of pandemics, and top officials from both sides — whether they wanted to be there or not — were forced to confront a whole-of-government response to a crisis.
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Working closely together, the private and public sectors should be planning based on one important fact: the COVID-19 crisis is different from anything that's come before it in critical ways and we cannot deal with it as we have with previous pandemics.
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Kite, who pays $11,000 a year for a policy that includes business interruption coverage for two inns that cater to Napa Valley winery tourists, said he was not offered the option of buying cover that covered pandemics or the impact of viruses.
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Some public health experts say that past pandemics — in particular the deadly Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed approximately 675,13 people in the United States, offer lessons, including the importance of imposing strict social-distancing measures early and keeping them in place.
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The outbreak already is providing an early test of a plan Trump unveiled in 2018 to respond to man-made and naturally occurring biological threats that designated HHS the lead federal department on viral pandemics, effectively wrangling up to a dozen agencies' response.
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"We told my grandpa 100 times that the bar is not open because of the Spanish flu, to make him understand," Toniolo told Reuters, referring to the deadly disease that killed millions after World War One and remains a byword for pandemics.
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"The world is at acute risk for devastating regional or global disease epidemics or pandemics that not only cause loss of life but upend economies and create social chaos," grimly proclaims the report, published today by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB).
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Recognizing the threats that epidemics and pandemics, like those caused by Ebola and Zika, pose to national economies, the World Bank issued a report examining how to break the cycle of "panic and neglect" that seems to describe global reaction to such threats.
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There was a lot of earnest policy discussions on topics from artificial intelligence to pandemics, but the most striking thing was the broader, if often only implied, subtext to the entire three-day event: the collapse of America's global influence under President Trump.
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IN HIS bleak economic history "The Great Leveler" (reviewed here), Walter Scheidel suggests says that inequality has been around ever since humans began farming and that only the "four horsemen"—mass warfare, genuine revolution, state collapse and pandemics—have managed to bring it down since.
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While the Cuban government and the Obama White House continue to have profound disagreements on issues such as human rights, the two governments have established a robust bilateral agenda that includes cooperation on environmental policy, maritime issues, migration, organized crime and responses to pandemics.
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"You can be too centralized, and a lot of the problems in China reflected an excessive use of the command-and-control model, in which everything had to run through Beijing for approval," said Robert Dingwall, a British sociologist who has studied responses to pandemics.
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The lack of information about the decision and how it was made have provoked outrage from some scientists, who oppose the research because they say it could create mutant viruses that might cause deadly pandemics if they were unleashed by lab accidents or terrorism.
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But he overlooks efforts that might help fight future pandemics or even stop them before they start — such as projects to keep people at a healthy distance from potentially dangerous wildlife, global viral monitoring networks and programs to deliver information instead of fear to communities.
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Steven Taylor, a clinical psychologist and author of "The Psychology of Pandemics" told CNN that people are triggered to panic buy if the scale of the threat — a global pandemic — doesn't seem to match up to the simplicity of the best deterrent, like hand-washing.
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M.J. Crockett, a neuroscientist and director of the Crockett Lab at Yale University whose work centers on investigating altruism, morality and economic decision-making, has researched behavior in pandemics and the type of messaging that spurs people to make sacrifices for the common good.
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Wright said he read about previous pandemics, including the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 50 million people, and imagined what would happen if a virus got loose in the modern age, with millions of people flying around the world and exposing everyone in their path.
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But, as the world's attention grows focused on coronavirus and the possibility of future pandemics, the company is working to integrate the sensor tech into airport scanners that can help authorities detect if a traveler is ill before they're allowed to board a plane.
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Kadlec — viewed by Azar as a problem-solver who was tapped to reunify separated migrant families in 2018 — also had prepared national disaster management personnel to handle pandemics by putting them through specialized training to handle infectious disease issues two years ago, said two individuals.
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Gates noted that while a 1103 outbreak of H1N1 influenza (dubbed the swine flu) wasn't as lethal as people initially feared, it did call attention to the fact that the world doesn't have a coordinated approach to help with early detection and spread of pandemics.
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An invigorated focus on WASH in healthcare facilities would greatly increase safety for newborn babies and pregnant women; achieve significant life-saving health and economic outcomes; and because pandemics know no borders, help prevent and contain infectious diseases related to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation.
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In the age of cholera, politicians obfuscated and denied their way through the epidemic; today, the World Health Organization, the globe's dedicated first responder, is so deprived of public funding that its private donors disproportionately control the agenda — which often has nothing to do with controlling pandemics.
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In the book's expanded version of the article, he draws from interviews with dozens of leading climate scientists, in addition to hundreds of scientific papers, to describe a near future pummeled by climate horrors—wildfires, hurricanes, drought, starvation, heat death, pandemics, air pollution, extinction, and flooding.
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At a time in which the UN is taking on a crucial role in aiding a record number of refugees, keeping peace across the globe with a record number of peacekeeping troops, and staving off global pandemics, U.S. engagement with the UN is more important than ever.
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Some pandemics are only mild or moderate, and it is still not certain how severe this will be, but it is certain that people who are older and medically vulnerable should take steps to distance themselves from others and reduce the risk that they become infected.
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The playbook also stresses the significant responsibility facing the White House to contain risks of potential pandemics, a stark contrast with the Trump administration's delays in deploying an all-of-government response and President Donald Trump's recent signals that he might roll back public health recommendations.
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It wouldn't be easy for DHS to rebuild its capacity to model pandemics, given the brain drain within the department: Many of the people who worked on the models have now scattered across the government or left government service altogether, one of the former officials said.
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You can find further reading on this on Vox: The coronavirus exposes the history of racism and "cleanliness" Why pandemics activate xenophobia Why Asians in masks should not be the "face" of the coronavirus You can find this video and all of Vox's videos on YouTube.
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People who live in communities where infection isn't widespread or officials haven't imposed lockdowns may be less willing to distance themselves from others, said Steven Taylor, a clinical psychologist and author of "The Psychology of Pandemics," a historic look at how people respond to such crises.
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This may occasionally make for "gloomy" reading, but even I couldn't have envisaged that in 2019 we would be witnessing worldwide outbreaks of measles and a growing Ebola epidemic in Africa caused in large part by the rejection of vaccines, a proven medical technology for preventing pandemics.
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Trump dismissed as "a nasty question" a query from a reporter about how he can claim he is not responsible for a lag in testing people for coronavirus when his administration in 2018 dissolved a National Security Council group that was tasked with preparing for pandemics.
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It is raising questions about how we work and how we play; what responsibilities governments have to prepare for pandemics and keep their citizens informed; how we care for our most vulnerable; how the outbreak fuels racism and xenophobia; and what role schools play in our societies.
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And the senator's message aligns with that of the world's top experts on pandemics and infectious disease, who are urging Americans to stay home and pushing for the expansion of virus testing the production of more essential medical equipment to deal with the surge in patients.
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But we need to realize that the same fast thinking that set the table for the outbreak is cooking up a future of other catastrophes including wildfires, sea level rise, drought, extreme weather, refugee flows and the spread of tropical disease—as well as future pandemics.
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For instance, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, the patron saint of the effective altruism movement that preaches this data-driven philosophy, has for years been among the few megaphilanthropists to fund research on pandemics, including a grant just this month to forecast how the coronavirus might spread.
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The President has acknowledged the challenges that the US faces but specific plans are unclear: Voters and journalists alike would do well to ask the administration and the many candidates who seek office in 2020 to outline their plans to fight coronavirus and prevent other pandemics.
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They include extending the exclusivity for new antibiotics to give companies more time to earn back their investments and creating a program to buy and store critical antibiotics much the way the federal government stockpiles emergency medication for possible pandemics or bioterror threats like anthrax and smallpox.
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The strategy — which administration officials said was drawn from speeches that Mr. Trump had delivered during the 2016 campaign and as president while at the United Nations and on trips in Europe and Asia — ranges widely and includes jihadi extremism, space exploration, nuclear proliferation and pandemics.
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The San Francisco-based company frames its tool as a public health service, given that the World Economic Forum has estimated that pandemics could cause $570 billion worth of annual losses to the global economy and that new strains of drug-resistant bacteria and deadly diseases continue to proliferate.
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The end of Predict is a symptom of a bigger problem: The US government isn't taking the risk of pandemics as seriously as it should be, and it isn't investing enough in spreading the expertise and best practices that might be needed in the case of a global pandemic.
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Among those, he wrote, were promoting the U.S.'s role in the Pacific; managing relationships with regional powerhouses such as China; overseeing global responses to scourges including health pandemics and climate change; and defeating extremists such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Government officials have an obligation to not only implement policies that keep Americans as a whole safe in the face of potential pandemics but also take every step necessary to make sure that disabled and chronically ill people are shielded from the harm those policies might cause them.
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Trump broadcasting his lack of knowledge about key staff decisions isn't helpful and it doesn't address the fact that since the directorate was shut down in 2018 he hasn't pushed to increase personnel despite public warnings about pandemics -- including from the intelligence community -- over the last few years.
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My work focused on preparing the United States for the hard-to-imagine -- an aerosolized anthrax attack occurring in multiple cities, destruction of core infrastructure from accelerating climate change impacts, solar flares cutting off power to the Eastern Seaboard, widespread antibiotic resistance, pandemics and other nightmare-inducing scenarios.
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Rather, to face the profound challenges of pandemics — of which this coronavirus will not be the last — as well as the threat of climate change, to survive and even flourish on this interconnected planet, we have to learn to subordinate the needs of the market to our own needs.
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Rather, to face the profound challenges of pandemics — of which this coronavirus will not be the last — as well as the threat of climate change, to survive and even flourish on this interconnected planet, we have to learn to subordinate the needs of the market to our own needs.
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Warwick McKibbin, an economist at the Australian National University, has been modeling the impact of pandemics since 2003, when the World Health Organization asked for an assessment of the fallout from SARS, a coronavirus-caused disease that emerged in China at the end of 2002 and killed 236 people.
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"I think we can anticipate that as we move forward, we will see more burnout for our first responders, greater depletions of our supplies, and greater demand for more recovery money," said Alice Hill, a climate fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who has also studied pandemics.
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But, you know, we're very excited about the announcement that we're making this morning about the partnership we're doing with BARTA, which is the government agency responsible for pandemics and vaccines and what we're doing to accelerate our development but also, our production for something against COVID-19.
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Administration critics also have been quick to criticize a 2018 White House decision to gut a National Security Council team focused on responding to pandemics as part of a streamlining, though the NSC continues to play a major role in coordinating the federal response to global crises. Sen.
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"The work of the World Bank Group is more important now than ever as the aspirations of the poor rise all over the world, and problems like climate change, pandemics, famine and refugees continue to grow in both their scale and complexity," Mr. Kim said in a statement.
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The mosquito-borne Zika virus now spreading in Latin America is not included in the insurance scheme, but Kim said funds for Zika and other diseases that could lead to pandemics would be made available through a separate cash window, which is likely to be in the $100 million range.
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In the 21st century the World Bank will have a useful future only if it can evolve into a club of countries with the resources and legitimacy to tackle a growing list of shared challenges such as climate change, financial instability, the refugee crisis, pandemics and boosting investment to build prosperity.
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Since the end of World War II, there has been an unsettling increase in both the total number of existential risks—such as nuclear conflict, climate change, global biodiversity loss, engineered pandemics, grey goo, geoengineering, physics experiments, and machine superintelligence—and the overall probability of civilizational collapse, or worse, occurring.
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What we're reading More doctors embrace membership fees, shunning health insurance (Chicago Tribune) HUD Is Failing to Protect Children From Lead Paint Poisoning, Audits Find (The Southern Illinoisan and ProPublica) New CDC director targets opioids, suicide and pandemics (The Wall Street Journal) Could genetic testing help reunite separated immigrant families?
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The group is also asking for $100 billion in federally-backed business interruption insurance, since many private policies are not covering shutdowns from pandemics, as well as $35 billion for community block grants that typically go to businesses in areas hit by natural disasters and $45 billion in federal loans.
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The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security reported in 23 that, according to US government estimates, about 23,193 people in the United States would require ventilation in an outbreak similar to the flu pandemics of 219-219 (which killed 219,000 people in the US) and 1968 (which killed 100,000 Americans).
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MUMBAI, India — In the continuing Indian elections, as 193 million people are voting to elect representatives to the lower house of the Parliament, disinformation and hate speech are drowning out truth on social media networks in the country and creating a public health crisis like the pandemics of the past century.
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Both countries — and the rest of the world — benefit from having talented journalists, many of them fluent in Chinese and versed in Chinese culture, cover the world's second largest economy, the center of global manufacturing, and, unfortunately, a population hard hit by one of the worst pandemics of modern times.
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The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security reported in 23 that, according to US government estimates, about 65,000 people in the United States would require ventilation in an outbreak similar to the flu pandemics of 1957-1958 (which killed 116,000 people in the US) and 0003 (which killed 100,000 Americans).
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Image: Karl-Goran Sjogren/University of GothenbergLong before the two deadliest pandemics in history—the Plague of Justinian and the Black Plague—an ancient strain of the bacterium responsible for these scourges, Yersinia pestis, may have already wreaked havoc among Neolithic European communities over 5,000 years ago, according to a controversial new study.
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"Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage," said Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust global health charity which co-funded the review with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and several other organisations.
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These tests will require that facilities are equipped with Mesa's Accula testing system, but its equipment is already in use for testing flu, as well as other less serious equipment, and it was originally designed specifically to address use on the frontlines of efforts to combat global pandemics, including SARS before this.
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Virtual School Day will also have special sessions for each age group, including The Story of Your Favorite Fairy Tales and Secrets of Staying Healthy for elementary students, The Science of Pandemics and Video Game Sound Design for middle schoolers and History of the National Parks and Careers in Science for high schoolers.
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The reality is that his administration, with the help of a Republican-controlled Congress, hampered the country's ability to fight pandemics like Covid-19, as explained by Vox's Matthew Yglesias: That's part of a broader pattern of actual and potential Trump efforts to shut down America's ability to respond to pandemic disease.
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There is a long history of racializing pandemics by attaching them to a specific place and people, othering a pathogen that originated in another land in much the same way white Americans have historically othered people of color who came to (or whose ancestors came to) the United States from somewhere else.
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"We're getting to a point where the biggest opportunities I think in the world ... problems like preventing pandemics from spreading or ending terrorism, all these things, they require a level of coordination and connection that I don't think can only be solved by the current systems that we have," Zuckerberg told me.
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As healthcare experts warn that the US has yet to see the worst of its outbreak, and information changes daily, we've turned to both the past, to see how pandemics have played out in history, and the future, to see how macro thinkers believe the virus could have a changing impact on American life.
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"I don't think we've seen compelling evidence that travel bans work at all, and they're less likely to work for respiratory viruses like this, because they move too quickly," says Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the coauthor of a prescient report on preparing for "high-impact" respiratory disease pandemics.
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Other voices in the conversation: Anne Rimoin, epidemiologist, UCLA: We need to study outbreaks in real-time Jason Cone, USA executive director, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières': Governments play the greatest role in protecting people Ali Khan, public health expert and dean, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center: Pandemics are as dangerous as war
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Swamped cities, scorched crops, pandemics — nothing you would wish upon your children, or anyone else's "It is a decision made for domestic political purposes that puts the livelihood and lives of millions of people in developing countries at risk," says Trevor Houser, a former climate negotiator for President Barack Obama who is now a partner with the Rhodium Group.
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Decisions on how to manage the nuclear weapons stockpile; how to ensure the reliability and security of the electricity grid; how to prepare for future pandemics; how to assess the impacts of climate change; how to prioritize investments in research; and how to evaluate the impacts of tax policies on innovation all require trustworthy science and technology assessments.
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"This difference in planning for mental health services and reunification procedures versus pandemics may be explained by how school districts are weighing the feasibility of responding effectively to infectious disease outbreaks, who should lead the response versus partner with others such as local public health departments, competing priorities and resource constraints, and likely other factors," Faherty said by email.
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Setting up a program that is inclusive of the self-employed and micro-business community will require true vision by members of both parties and both chambers, but not doing so will continue to harm American families and further ensure this population remains vulnerable to the ebbs and flows of financial uncertainty and global health pandemics.
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I'm wondering what kind of world my baby will grow up in: One where pandemics, climate devastation, and financial crises that seemed far-fetched only weeks ago will be the norm, or one where the intelligence and good in society — the spirit of cooperation — will prevail, and we finally start preparing long before new, catastrophic threats emerge.
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Read about pandemics, or the settlers of the Northwest Territory, or Neville Chamberlain's ill-advised strategy of appeasing Hitler; read a biography of the con artist who gave rise to the loaded term "welfare queen," or settle in with a satire about creative writing programs, or enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert's new historical novel about the world of New York showgirls.
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The plan imagines that the Postal Service's efforts would be paid by the Department of Health & Human Services, via the Stafford Act—the powerful emergency disaster legislation that governs much of the federal government's response to everything from tornadoes to pandemics—and that it would only disturb mail delivery for a day or two in each targeted region.
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A half-dozen flu pandemics — including those of 1889, 1918 (the Spanish flu), 1957, 1968 and 2009 (the swine flu) — were all first detected between late March and late July, according to a study published recently in PLOS Computational Biology by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the Institute for Disease Modeling in Bellevue, Wash.
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"So go ahead take your pick from the world's worst buffet: economic inequality that's a problem, how about the refugee crisis, massive global insecurity, climate change, pandemics, institutional racism ..." Damon was also self deprecating, telling the audience that he didn't deserve to be standing in front of such brilliant minds since he dropped out of Harvard University to pursue acting.
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Other voices in the conversation: Anne Rimoin, epidemiologist, UCLA: We need to study outbreaks in real-time Peter Hotez, pediatrician and dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine: Protect the "soft underbelly" of the U.S. Ali Khan, public health expert and dean, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center: Pandemics are as dangerous as war
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"I work with some of the global leaders on virologic expeditions and I consider Chu at the very top of my list," said Dr. Michael Callahan, a US government clinical infectious disease specialist and the founder of DARPA's Prophecy program, which monitors and predicts virus evolution around the globe in order to prevent and contain outbreaks before they become pandemics.
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Between these long-term impacts on the development of military capabilities (such as budgetary trends or disruptions of development efforts), as well as short-term disruptions to operational theaters, pandemics such as COVID-19 carry a risk of granting a temporary free pass to the activities of non-state actors across the world, and possibly even a permanent setback in many active theaters.
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He noted that levelling happens much more often because of the collapse of a state, such as the fall of the Roman Empire; because of deadly pandemics, like the black death of the thirteen-hundreds, which killed so many people that there were labor shortages and workers' wages went up; and because of mass-mobilization warfare, such as the two World Wars.
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"There are a lot of grumpy climate change specialists expressing frustration right now that we've been trying to motivate massive restructuring of society since forever, and then this virus comes and massively restructures society almost immediately," said Seth Baum, executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and a researcher on the risks involved in pandemics and other very bad events.
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Image: Body Hacking ConOn stage at Body Hacking Con this weekend, DARPA director of biological technologies Justin Sanchez ran through an impressive list of the sort of government projects that might interest people attending a conference about the integration of humans and tech, including plans to prevent global pandemics by turning the body into bioreactor and to restore memory through technologies like brain computer interfaces.
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Other voices in the conversation: Jason Cone, USA executive director, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières': Governments play the greatest role in protecting people Peter Hotez, pediatrician and dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine: Protect the "soft underbelly" of the U.S. Ali Khan, public health expert and dean, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center: Pandemics are as dangerous as war
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The president has repeatedly picked fights with the European Union over things like trade and NATO contributions, painting US allies as trying to "take advantage" of the US. Given the global nature of pandemics, the travel ban will likely do little to slow the spread within the United States, though countries across the world are encouraging their citizens to take precautions, including limiting travel.
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After his passing, Singer shared the conclusion of the soon-to-be-published third volume of On What Matters, which touches on these topics, and in particular argues for the importance of staving off existential risks that threaten the future of humanity, risks like global warming, pandemics, nuclear annihilation, and so on: I regret that, in a book called On What Matters, I have said so little about what matters.
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Worthy of your time: Pakistan's future: "the most dangerous country in the world" The threat from America China rising: Our greatest rival and a growing threat The bottom line: "We don't focus enough" on climate change Pandemics: A fast-spreading threat How Russia's old threat became new again Terrorism: An urgent, shifting threat North Korea's two paths back to "fire and fury" Artificial intelligence: The threat of the future
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Right now, we are in nothing short of an emergency situation: we have an unprecedented outbreak of a virus and a botched testing kit response by the Trump administration, which has also recently proposed cutting funding to the CDC and NIH in its FY 2021 budget, disbanded the National Security Council's global pandemic response team and has yet to fill the vacancy, and ended overseas programs to stem pandemics.
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Sean SpicerSean Michael SpicerObama officials walked Trump aides through global pandemic exercise in 85033: report Sean Spicer to launch 'Spicer & Co.' on Newsmax TV Tuesday night Republicans give 2024 tryouts at CPAC MORE, who served as the administration's first press secretary and was also present at the meeting, said the exercise was of limited use because the details of real pandemics are rarely as straightforward as such exercises.
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As the novel coronavirus continues its global spread, with cases in more than 100 countries and regions, and 20 countries reporting more than 100 cases, experts have drawn comparisons — some of them reassuring, some of them alarming — to past major disease outbreaks, public health emergencies, and pandemics, from SARS and MERS to the 1918-'19 Spanish influenza that was one of the biggest catastrophes of the past 200 years.
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Anne Rimoin, epidemiologist, UCLA: We need to study outbreaks in real-time Jason Cone, USA executive director, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières': Governments play the greatest role in protecting people Peter Hotez, pediatrician and dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine: Protect the "soft underbelly" of the U.S. Ali Khan, public health expert and dean, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center: Pandemics are as dangerous as war
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" I share their concerns and agree that funding these institutions is critical, especially now when the United States and our allies must contend with terrorist organizations like ISIS, pandemics such as Ebola, and the most severe refugee crisis since World War II. During the budget debate of 2013, our current Secretary of Defense General James Mattis contended that "If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately.
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