THREAD: As depressing as the current situation is, though, the next pandemic—and there will be a next one—doesn’t have to be this bad. These are the five steps we need to take trib.al/LwmCyPE
1. Pathogen surveillance
We need to approach emerging viruses the way we approach terrorist networks: Track them so we can intervene before they can wreak havoc trib.al/LwmCyPE
2. Repairing and augmenting the WHO
Pandemic surveillance and response, almost by definition, are global efforts, which means it’s time to consider a new global partnership to oversee them trib.al/LwmCyPE
3. Genetic sequencing
Gene sequencing offers the tantalizing possibility of tracking a virus’s spread with molecular precision trib.al/LwmCyPE
4. Developing more vaccines, faster
Vaccines have been the most spectacular success story so far in the current pandemic. Yet, there’s clear opportunity for improvement trib.al/LwmCyPE
5. Ironing out distribution and logistics
Adapting logistics in a medical system as large and complicated as that of the U.S. can take months of advance planning and coordination, and databases must be developed to keep track of everything trib.al/LwmCyPE
Read the full story and more about the individual steps here trib.al/LwmCyPE
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Confined mostly to tiny cabins, crew members found themselves forced to stay aboard—sometimes without pay—and struggling to cope with a never-ending lockdown trib.al/HHBt5KS
Jozsef Szaller, who planned shore excursions for cruise
guests, was hoping to study photography and dreamed of going shark-cage diving in South Africa trib.al/HHBt5KS
Mariah Jocson, a ship waitress, had always dreamed of
becoming a seafarer, according to her father trib.al/HHBt5KS
[THREAD] Bloomberg 50: From Guy Fieri to Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, these are the people in entertainment who defined an unprecedented year trib.al/QWmKpE7
Guy Fieri (a.k.a. the Mayor of Flavortown) raised more than $21.5 million in seven weeks to assist unemployed restaurant workers trib.al/nRUq9ky#Bloomberg50@GuyFieri
[THREAD] The damage caused by coronavirus can be brutal. And the burden of care will weigh on countries for years to come.
We talked with six Covid long haulers about what it’s been like to live with the mystifying condition trib.al/CzB3cQS
Jenny, 45 (Oxford, England): “If I was teaching now, I’d be on my feet and using my lungs all day. My main symptom now is this pain in my chest, and it’s really tiring. I just don’t know what it is, and no one else does, either.” trib.al/CzB3cQS
Mario Escobar, 53 (Bogotá): “When I got back on my bike, it was much harder to ride uphill. A few days after that, symptoms started to reappear. I began sneezing and had a more frequent and stronger cough.” trib.al/CzB3cQS
The BTS Army and K-pop stans are beating QAnon and MAGA supporters at their own game trib.al/NIBCCdm
In the past few months, K-pop stans have regularly hijacked QAnon and MAGA social media hashtags. They’ve led get-out-the-vote efforts against the president. And many were among the online pranksters who boasted about helping derail a Trump rally in Tulsa trib.al/NIBCCdm
This spring, Daezy Agbakoba was the first to tweet the hashtag #MatchAMillion, imploring her fellow stans to add another $1 million to BTS’s Black Lives Matter donation.
THREAD: Bill Gates says climate change is an even harder problem than the pandemic.
He told us about coronavirus vaccines, climate change innovations, misinformation, and how Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are different. Here's what he said trib.al/AKGEzZn
"Any suggestion that a politician helped create the vaccine or it’s faster because of a politician is a very dangerous thing."
Bill Gates on if he's worried about politics hijacking the vaccine approval process trib.al/AKGEzZn
"Trillions is about dollars and cents, but the damage goes way beyond that."
Bill Gates on the cost of fighting the pandemic trib.al/AKGEzZn
THREAD: Everyone’s vote is important, but thanks to the Electoral College, some votes in America matter more than others’. These are the nine types of voters who will decide 2020 trib.al/G139z6z
Double Haters: People who dislike both candidates but were still likely to vote. A Civiqs poll finds that Double Haters prefer Biden over Trump 58% to 4% trib.al/G139z6z
Shy Trumpers: Trump did, indeed, overperform relative to polls in 2016. Was it because of “Shy Trumpers”? There’s debate about whether Shy Trumpers still exist—or ever did trib.al/G139z6z