Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague, joins TWiV for a wide-ranging discussion of infectious disease and public health, including emerging infections, the role of wildlife markets in spillovers, and missteps in handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
Guest: Laurie Garrett
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Links for this episode
- Lauriegarrett.com 00:58
- The Coming Plague 10:22
- Betrayal of Trust 20:39
- Trump sabotaged coronavirus response (Foreign Policy) 1:11:09
- ASV Vaccine Town Hall 1:45:16
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Weekly Picks 1:45:51
Brianne – A Pivotal Mosquito Experiment Could Not Have Gone Better
Kathy – Microbiology at the Movies
Vincent – When a Good Scientist Is the Wrong Source
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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Brilliant episode. So grateful you just let Laurie Garret speak for the hour. Love TWIV. Thank you for all you do.
I thank her for bringing up the holocaust that is the meat industry, in any form. People are the problem. We do not need meat to sustain life or health and so as moral beings we are obligated to end this holocaust for the benefit of our victims, those terrified nonhuman animals, and ourselves because we will reduce the risk of zoonotic disease transmission. No one has the right to kill another to satisfy a mere desire and that includes the Chinese.
Why single out the Chinese (as in “… and that includes the Chinese”)?
Most powerful episode I have heard since March 2020. I think she pushed your idealized political viewpoints to the uncomfortable level, concerning China. It was enlightening.
I think she pushed your idealized political viewpoints to the uncomfortable level,
Bingo!
She is outstanding! I am thankful you gave her the time to speak passionately uninterrupted. We (including yourselves) were all listening
Wow great. To me the experience is like an inspiring docmentary movie. All our senators, members of Congress, and White House should see and hear this. ONE PICKY suggestion ——— it was noticeable that Laurie’s sound transmission equipment was not nearly as good as the regular TWIV partisipants and also other guests normally use. Outgoing sound should be separated from incomming sound. Specifally, that means some kind of ear buds, hearphones or headset. Microphone close to mouth is helpful. Doesn’t have to be expenseive. A good one is Sennheiser model SC60 USB-ML. (It looks like some of the regular TWIV participants have very fancy microphones, w, great quality results, but the overkill isn’t really necessary.
April, 2022: a revitalized push to transform the origin of COVID into a purely National Security story is out in Vanity Fair. That article continues the identical hysterical propaganda & hostile takeover of science, that Ms. Garrett describes from her on-the-ground reporting from SARS 2003, MERS and SARS 2019.
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And of course, her talk cannot avoid the politicization of epidemics that she recounted in her 2000 Betrayal of Trust
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This is an incredibly cogent, far-ranging interview that I was glad to come back & re-examine after everything that’s happened since I first thought it was great
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Expertise, experience & clear talk!
Hello, smart, dedicated & hard-working TWIV people!
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I’m not aware of a TWIV Greatest Hits collection but this episode deserves a re-listen. Sometime you take a break from your pace, maybe a re-run of this would be a great intro for people who don’t normally listen
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Kudos & many thanks