Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there … - Laurie Garrett

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

You know what's funny about the people who say mean things? There's a certain part of Twitter that is literally shouting into the void, and then sometimes when the void shouts back it's like, "Whoa! I wasn't expecting that. I got called out. " And then if you have a conversation, you find out they like something or they like that or they have questions about that.

Laurie Garrett

Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. . . . Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.

Inspiration, Motivation, Pandemic, Result, Role, Running

Same Author Quotes

Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

Battle, Equity, Pandemics, Planet, Render, Vaccines

In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.

Age, Care, Deaths, Disease, Improvement, Per

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

260, Fashion, History, People, Vaccine, Vaccines

[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.

Atmosphere, Media, Suffering, Suffers, Superficial, Wealthy

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.

Assistance, Callousness, Ebola, Greed, Political, Populations