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A future without pandemics? with Mark Smolinski

The TED Interview

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Larry Brayant's Dream of a Pandemic

I had been living in Cambodia for Google because we were spending a lot of time helping with bird flu in the region so I ended up living there and at that time Larry had left to go over to start the skull global threats fund. So he made them promise when he left Google that he could take me with him and so I said okay yeah Larry I'll come and join you. The first day I showed up in the office he hands me the script and he said care first job is to make sure that this movie that participant media is going to make is scientifically sound and we can stand behind everything that's in this movie. It was already written Scott Burns brilliant writer I took the script

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