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As the threat of COVID-19 continues, infectious disease expert Adam Kucharski answers five key questions about the novel coronavirus, providing necessary perspective on its transmission, how governments have responded and what might need to change about our social behavior to end the pandemic. (This video is excerpted from a 70-minute interview between Kucharski and head of TED Chris Anderson. Listen to the full interview at .)
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This stuff makes me so so nervous.
Don’t be ok. Most of it is media frenzy. Talk to your local docs and nurses. They’ll tell you.
@Kyle Kissack they didn’t have the media frenzy back then. Makes it that much worse.
Eh don’t be it’s just the apocalypse…
Bill Gates saw this coming a little over 4 years ago…
@303StreetMachines Nope, you are.
Agenda21, Event 201
@J K Noticed that yesterday. Had to triple check the release date. WTF!
And yet he spent the past four years getting richer than ever before instead of saving lives
Damn
By doing Ted Talks from your house, I guess?
It’s a nice addition that he isn’t speaking on a stage in front of a live audience like usual
Kechem 123 nice
I disagree. I think the stage makes the talk more ‘creditable’ as hes talking to an audience. That is the TED way. Not saying this video should be discredit because of how its done, I just think everyone (including myself) does it like this and its too common. Not the TED way.
It’s probably cause there’s a quarantine going on around the world (in Poland most definitely, and based on his name he’s Polish) and they just couldn’t do a stage talk with an audience >.<
You mean a nice subtraction?
Desperate times….
As the descriptions says, this video is excerpted from a 70-minute chat between Kucharski and head of TED Chris Anderson. The whole interview is interesting: http://go.ted.com/adamkucharski (Also on TED Interview podcast.)
By staying home, watch netflix and eating patato chips 🙂
For the following 3 months?
@lunapark23 of course
Nagib Al Amin Definitely the potato chips.
And when i just want to get my potato chip…i forgot… i didn’t buy any because i was staying home the whole time
First step! Throw out your t.v.!
Second step! Throw out your phone!
Excellent idea!
Those that are panick buying STOP..
I agree 100 percent
It will be a challenge, but we will pull through this – we always have
And we shall, but only time will tell who survived.
What if virus mutates and starts turning people into zombies .. gamers get your guns lol
Welp I can safely say if that happens California is screwed…
Aye aye captain!
My mind is swollen of coronavirus.
Corona is everywhere
it’s on the news
on the internet
people on the street
it’s a mania
cesarcdx, so you are sick of the coronavirus onslaught too? Whew, thought it was just me being grouchy.
@Mr Mike Sure sir, count me in as well we’re all stuck in the same elevator
Just keep up hand hygiene and calmness it’s all we can do now. Think of the
vulnerable
I think this is the only TED I have seen where it appears the guy did it from home!
Nice one.
@prabhat mishra Yes everything being done at home now
Well, he couldn’t very well fly from London to NY right now. And it’s been recorded only few days ago. As the descriptions says, this video is excerpted from a 70-minute chat between Kucharski and head of TED Chris Anderson, I guess they just spoke via video as many of us do these days. The whole interview is interesting: http://go.ted.com/adamkucharski (Also on TED Interview podcast.)
@katarina janoskova Yeah. Thanks! 🙂
I clicked because I saw a cute guy, I think I’m gonna die with my level of carelessness
you gay boisss
Whelp the Corona Beer company is definitely going out of business….
Thankfully it’s not a Doom Bar virus; That sounds much scarier (Doom Bar is an ale)
Time to get lectures from all the introvert TED speakers.
Extroverted speakers: Crying silently
Reducing the economic burden can be helped by rich folks donating some of aaallll that hoarded money
If they want to stay rich they should hire private militias for safety’s sake. Irresponsible people should have hoarded their own money.
Would be nice to hear to hear the questions. Answers don’t make much sense without context.
What about the ones affected that have recovered. Would it not make sense to allow the recovered out into the public? Since they carry antibodies and aren’t infecting others wouldn’t it make sense to have them work and provide for those that are sick and keep the economy going? Why isn’t anyone talking about the fact that those affected 14 days ago are now immune and the count of all those infected is disingenuous. The media should be counting those with current infections and not those that have already healed! Running a tally of ALL infections is scaring the public and doesn’t reflect what’s really going on.
You don’t get immune when you recover
What China have done?
What did they do? They told the western media that they are controlling the virus. And you sir believe that lies?
Stay home every one