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The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED
Bill Gates's 2015 TED talk, given after the 2014 Ebola outbreak, argues the world is unprepared for the next fast-spreading epidemic. He calls for scenario planning, vaccine research, and trained health workers, in the way countries prepare for war.
Why HN readers recommended it
During COVID-19 HN commenters cited it as a prescient pandemic warning.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- pandemic preparedness
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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We are not prepared, but there was people warning about it. See this Ted talk from Bill Gates, 5 years ago. It's impressive how the details are similar to coronavirus. [VIDEO]
digaozao on Hacker News · 2020-03
In Climate change: The rich are to blameGates gave a prescient TED talk in 2015 [1] in which he describes the risk of a global pandemic and the general lack of preparedness. The Gates foundation has also been working for years to help eradicate diseases like polio and malaria [2][3]. Given his …
dgritsko on Hacker News · 2020-04
In Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown
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