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Pandemic in sentence

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And they thought that if there was a pandemic, a billion people would get sick.
Let me show you a simulation of what a pandemic looks like.
And SARS is the pandemic that did not occur.
And it didn't occur because GPHIN found the pandemic-to-be of SARS three months before WHO actually announced it, and because of that, we were able to stop the SARS pandemic.
So instead of a hidden pandemic of bird flu, we find it and immediately contain it.
[How can we control the coronavirus pandemic?]
And in 2006, he came to TED to warn the world of the dire risk of a global pandemic, and what we might do about it.
CA: Larry, in that talk, you showed a video clip that was a simulation of what a pandemic might look like.
Larry Brilliant (TED2006): Let me show you a simulation of what a pandemic looks like, so we know what we're talking about.
Now if we had an undo button, and we could go back and isolate it and grab it when it first started, if we could find it early and we had early detection and early response, and we could put each one of those viruses in jail, that's the only way to deal with something like a pandemic.
Is that still the key to preventing a pandemic?
You know, when you have a pandemic, something moving at exponential speed, if you miss the first two weeks, if you're late the first two weeks, it's not the deaths and the illness from the first two weeks you lose, it's the two weeks at the peak.
I think throughout history, pretty much every pandemic is first viewed with denial and doubt.
The longer that is, the slower the pandemic appears to us.
But we made that movie deliberately to show what a real pandemic looked like, but we did choose a pretty awful virus.
Back in 2006, as a winner of the TED Prize, we granted you a wish, and you wished the world would create this pandemic preparedness system that would prevent something like this happening.
And it took working as a global community to conquer a global pandemic.
We will not be able to conquer a pandemic unless we believe we're all in it together.
This is not some Age of Aquarius, or Kumbaya statement, this is what a pandemic forces us to realize.
In my lab, we're using the tools of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to speed up the fight against this pandemic.
Importantly, the same technology can be used to search for antiviral compounds that could help us fight the current pandemic.
For the COVID-19 pandemic, we're designing RNA sensors to detect the virus and freeze-drying these along with the needed cellular machinery into the fabric of a face mask, where the simple act of breathing, along with the water vapor that comes with it, can activate the test.
This is true of the RNA viruses that caused the Ebola, Zika, and SARS epidemics, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
And events like the COVID-19 pandemic have shown that they’re even more essential than we thought.
Some introverts, if they were honest, might say that this pandemic has been manna from heaven for them.
Now the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic, meaning that it’s spreading worldwide.
The death toll is starting to rise and everyone is asking the same question: when will the pandemic end?
The WHO will likely declare the pandemic over once the infection is mostly contained and rates of transmission drop significantly throughout the world.
So the pandemic fizzles out a short time after it began.
Let’s reset the clock to the moment the WHO declared the pandemic.
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