The 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic | Dr Cassidy Nelson (2020)
Originally released February 2020. COVID-19 is alarming governments and citizens around the world. It has killed more than 1,000 people, brought the Chinese economy to a standstill, and continues to show up in more and more places.
But bad though it is, it’s much closer to a warning shot than a worst case scenario. The next emerging infectious disease could easily be more contagious, more fatal, or both.
Despite improvements in the last few decades, humanity is still not nearly prepared enough to contain new diseases. We identify them too slowly. We can’t do enough to reduce their spread. And we lack vaccines or drugs treatments for at least a year, if they ever arrive at all. This is a precarious situation, especially with advances in biotechnology increasing our ability to modify viruses and bacteria as we like.
In today’s episode, Cassidy Nelson, a medical doctor and research scholar at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, explains 12 things her research group think urgently need to happen if we’re to keep the risk at acceptable levels.
Learn more and see the full transcript on the 80,000 Hours website: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episod...
Chapters:
• Rob’s intro (00:00:00)
• The interview begins (00:03:27)
• Where we stand with nCov today (00:07:24)
• Policy idea 1: A drastic change to diagnostic testing (00:34:58)
• Policy idea 2: Vaccine platforms (00:47:08)
• Policy idea 3: Broad-spectrum therapeutics (00:54:48)
• Policy idea 4: Develop a national plan for responding to a severe pandemic, regardless of the cause (01:02:15)
• Policy idea 5: A different approach to travel bans (01:15:59)
• Policy idea 6: Data sharing (01:16:48)
• Policy idea 7: Prevention (01:24:45)
• Policy idea 8: transparency around lab accidents (01:33:58)
• Policy idea 9: DNA synthesis screening (01:39:22)
• Policy idea 10: Dual Use Research oversight (01:48:47)
• Policy idea 11: Pandemic tabletop exercises (02:00:00)
• Policy idea 12: Coordination (02:12:20)
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