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And John Doerr and Brook and others got concerned, [unclear], and we started looking around at what the world was doing about being prepared for a
pandemic.
We believe that if we could fill these 10 gaps, we have a chance to help really reduce the risk of a
pandemic.
And the difference between a normal flu season and a
pandemic
is about a factor of 1,000 in deaths and certainly enormous economic impact.
So if we can address, use technology, help address education, help address the environment, help address the pandemic, does that solve the larger problem that I was talking about in the Wired article?
Our investment in trying to prevent
pandemic
flu is affecting the distribution of possible outcomes.
The news arm of one of the world's top two scientific journals said if this thing got out, it would likely cause a
pandemic
with perhaps millions of deaths.
OK now, more importantly, had we been there in the '40s and '50s, '60s, had we seen this disease, had we understood exactly what was going on with it, how might that have changed and completely transformed the nature of the way this
pandemic
moved?
So the first question is, why do we need to even worry about a
pandemic
threat?
It's not going to do us very much good in a global
pandemic.
It mimics what we now understand about reconstructing the 1918 flu virus, the last great pandemic, in that it also jumped directly from birds to people.
End result: only 15 states have been certified to be able to do mass distribution of vaccine and drugs in a
pandemic.
Add on
pandemic
threat, you're in big trouble.
Let's pretend there's a
pandemic.
Six weeks they had all people in the banking industry pretend a
pandemic
was underway.
And then you're on your own because the
pandemic
is going to last for 18 to 24 months.
What do we know from 1918, the last great
pandemic?
The
pandemic
circulated three times in 18 months in the absence of commercial air travel.
Do you want to view the
pandemic
threat the way back in the 1950s people viewed the civil defense issue, and build your own little bomb shelter for
pandemic
flu?
Audience member: What factors determine the duration of a
pandemic?
Laurie Garret: What factors determine the duration of a pandemic, we don't really know.
To say ahh, if this happens then we are going to have a
pandemic?
It's curious that there is no evidence of mass die-offs of chickens or household birds across America before the human
pandemic
happened.
LG: For a long time, researchers in emerging diseases were kind of dismissive of the
pandemic
flu threat on the grounds that back in 1918 they didn't have antibiotics.
Two years later we started doing a project on developing mobile health clinics in sub-Saharan Africa, responding to the HIV/AIDS
pandemic.
Within three days, we realized the problem was not housing; it was the growing
pandemic
of HIV/AIDS.
The key to preventing or mitigating
pandemic
bird flu is early detection and rapid response.
WHO stages the progress of a
pandemic.
We are now at stage three on the
pandemic
alert stage, with just a little bit of human-to-human transmission, but no human-to-human-to-human sustained transmission.
Fifteen percent said they thought there'd be a
pandemic
within three years.
But much worse than that, 90 percent said they thought there'd be a
pandemic
within your children or your grandchildren's lifetime.
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