How to respond to the coronavirus

https://youtu.be/Xe8fIjxicoo

I just finished watching this TED talk with Bill Gates. For those of you who are up on their TED talks, this is not the one from five years ago where Bill predicted a pandemic and told us all that we were nowhere near ready. (We, of course, didn't listen.) This is one that was published a few days ago and talks about how we should be responding to the outbreak that we are currently living through. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been committing significant resources toward solving problems exactly like this one. So it's interesting to hear his thoughts. In case you're wondering, herd immunity isn't the answer. We need (1) widespread testing and (2) to be extremely disciplined about our social distancing. In his words: "But money, you know bringing the economy back and doing money, that's more of a reversible thing than bringing people back to life."

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