{"id":115,"date":"2020-03-20T19:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T02:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=115"},"modified":"2020-03-20T19:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T02:26:24","slug":"must-read-the-doctor-who-helped-defeat-smallpox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/20\/must-read-the-doctor-who-helped-defeat-smallpox\/","title":{"rendered":"Must read: The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What&#8217;s Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>LARRY BRILLIANT SAYS he doesn\u2019t have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, spoke to a TED audience and described what the next pandemic would look like. At the time, it sounded almost too horrible to take seriously. \u201cA billion people would get sick,&#8221; he said. \u201cAs many as 165 million people would die. There would be a global recession and depression, and the cost to our economy of $1 to $3 trillion would be far worse for everyone than merely 100 million people dying, because so many more people would lose their jobs and their health care benefits, that the consequences are almost unthinkable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Larry Brilliant: My wish: Help me stop pandemics\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/larry_brilliant_my_wish_help_me_stop_pandemics\" width=\"960\" height=\"722\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Wired &#8211; The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What&#8217;s Coming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LARRY BRILLIANT SAYS he doesn\u2019t have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, spoke to a TED audience and described what the next pandemic would look like. At the time, it sounded almost too horrible to take seriously. \u201cA billion people would get sick,&#8221; he said. \u201cAs many &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/20\/must-read-the-doctor-who-helped-defeat-smallpox\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}