Pandemic - Can We Prepare for It?

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We've seen some hopeful trajectory, some numbers receding rapidly as the omicron wave subsides. But somehow it also feels like this coved 19 stuff just can't take the easy route. We're only two years into this pandemic, and this will not be the last variant. I'm sure we will see more. There's a lot of good news, in a sense. The vaccines continue to be incredibly good at protecting you from getting severely ill and dying. That's hugely positive. So got to be hopeful that with that very high transmission, we will gain some degree of immunity. Maybe onmicron is the turning point when we start to see some light at the end

“We should expect more volatility,” Reid Hoffman tells Rapid Response host Bob Safian in the first Need to Know session of the year, covering news and business topics impacting entrepreneurs right now. Reid and Bob discuss the implications of the Ukraine invasion, then dive into the pandemic-fueled troubles at Peloton, PayPal, and Meta, new climate-change urgencies — including Reid’s recent trip to Antarctica, and how Activision will be different after merging with Microsoft. Plus: pay transparency; the lessons of Theranos; and the business case for democracy. Cameos: John Doerr (author of Speed & Scale), Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust), Daniella Ballou-Aares (Leadership Now Project).

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