Laurie Garrett explains why COVID 19 will endanger people for at least 36 months
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.
Michael is joined by public health expert and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Laurie Garrett to discuss the new reports that the United States of America will never reach herd immunity to the coronavirus. President Biden seemed somewhat defeated when he had to announce recently that we will have to settle for 70% getting just one shot by the 4th of July. They discuss how each of us are the most important ambassadors for total vaccination success. If 200,000 Average American citizens who are listening to this podcast each convince 10 people to get their shots — BOOM! Yes, there is a small portion of the American public who will simply refuse to get the vaccine and whom we cannot reach. However, most of the people avoiding vaccination have fears and skepticism — and each of us can help convince them with our support, encouragement, kindness and love. President Biden — don’t give up on us.
On the one hand, America's vaccine roll out is making great progress. On the other, in the last week COVID cases are on the rise in 38 states. On the one hand, the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are working remarkably well. On the other hand, Astra Zeneca and perhaps Johnson and Johnson not so much. (Or maybe the government is over-reacting to a very tiny number of problem cases with the J&J vaccine.) On the one hand we know more about the disease. On the other hand it keeps changing and about a third of us just don't want to know the science. Where does this lead? We discuss with Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurie Garrett, former senior Obama health specialist Dr. Kavita Patel and Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School. Also: A special conversation about latest revelations about Trump and Russia and the Biden team's response.
Laurie Garrett, the prophet of this pandemic, expects years of death and “collective rage.”
I told Laurie Garrett that she might as well change her name to Cassandra. Everyone is calling her that anyway.
She and I were Zooming — that’s a verb now, right? — and she pulled out a 2017 book, “Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.” It notes that Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was prescient not only about the impact of H.I.V. but also about the emergence and global spread of more contagious pathogens.
“I’m a double Cassandra,” Garrett said.
Just did a live Columbia U Zoom-cast with three pals – we all go back to the 1980s HIV days, when we bonded around the outrage of witnessing the unfolding pandemic: Bob Bazell (NBC News), Jon Cohen (Science Mag), Wendy Wertheimer (ex-NIH) and I. With Columbia’s Andy Revkin on “Sustain What?”, we talk about the similarities and differences between unfolding HIV/AIDS pandemic and COVID-19.
Amid global condemnation that doctors silenced by China could have stopped the spread of the coronavirus, Newsthink’s host and creator Cindy Pom finds out the real reason for China’s cover up. Professor Leigh Jenco, a specialist in Chinese political thought at the London School of Economics, explains Beijing’s actions were not a surprise. Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer who has tracked disease outbreaks including Ebola and SARS, describes the steps Chinese officials took to conceal the crisis.
Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter covering global pandemics, tells Lawrence O’Donnell that the White House guidelines for reopening communicated one thing: the federal government is not responsible for managing coronavirus testing; it's up to the states.
A americana Laurie Garrett, analista de políticas mundiais de saúde, é uma especialista em epidemias. Ao longo de sua carreira, ela já investigou mais de 30.
Em 1996, Garrett foi vencedora do Pulitzer de Reportagem Explicativa pela cobertura do surto de Ebola no Zaire pelo jornal Newsday. A reportagem deu origem ao livro Ebola: Story of an Outbreak (Ebola: história de um surto, em tradução livre). Garrett foi também uma das consultoras técnicas do filme “Contágio” (2011).
The only thing you know about the ghastly numbers the grow larger every day on your computer or television screen is that they are wrong. They hugely understate the number of victims of the current pandemic and because we are testing a fraction of a fraction of what we should be, we can't tell how far off we are...or what the real nature of the disease is. The Administration is lying and suppressing data. And the potential for a horrific second wave later in the year is growing. We discuss how we get to the truth and the nature of the real risk we face with Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurie Garrett and Ryan Goodman, co-editor of "Just Security" and Professor of Law at NYU Law School. It is essential listening. Don't miss it.
Minutes before I’m due to give her a call at her Brooklyn home, Laurie Garrett, the author of The Coming Plague and Betrayal of Trust and by far journalism’s most celebrated writer and reporter on epidemics, pandemics and government readiness, sends me a one-word email: “Waiting.”
If she sounds like she’s on deadline, that’s because she is. The only writer ever to win all three of the Big “Ps” of journalism, the Peabody Award in Broadcasting (1977), the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism (1996), and the Polk Award for Foreign Reporting (1997, 2000), Garrett is at the epicenter of the story she’s been researching her entire career: a global pandemic that could claim between 100,00 and 240,000 U.S lives and has already forced much of the world, including her beloved New York City, into lockdown.
How did it happen? And who’s accountable? Seems now a lot of people saw it coming. Stephen King wrote his viral bestseller The Stand 30 years ago; Bill Gates put his warning in a TED talk; our Pentagon had a plan to counter the pandemic. It was the reporter Laurie Garrett, covering viruses before HIV/AIDS in the ’80s, who got inside 30 different epidemics around the world before this one, and put a title on her scrupulous non-fiction: The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. That was 26 years ago. This week she’s just out with a first draft of our coronavirus history, with two plausible villains and also two possible sources of critical help, if it’s not too late.
How does an outbreak evolve into an epidemic and finally a pandemic? In Episode 4 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene discuss how the coronavirus crisis has been mishandled by the Trump administration, as well as the history of institutional and governmental response to public health crises. Their guest, Laurie Garrett, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer and the author of The Coming Plague, a book about emerging diseases in the twentieth century. The current fiasco may feel like it came out of nowhere, but it’s the result of countless concerted policy decisions. “You can’t do public health by privatizing it,” Garrett points out. “The societies that have tried have seen it fail.”
What would a full lockdown in the United States look like?
It’s going to look different in every part of the country. What I wanted to say to people is, You don’t have a lot of time. The wise course of action for any household is to assume there’s going to be a lockdown of some kind. Get yourself to wherever it is you want to be with whomever you think you need to be with, so that you’re ready as soon as an announcement is made.
Empty grocery store shelves, Purell selling at $100 a bottle, and handwashing that would make any mother proud. Uncertainty about the coronavirus dominates American life. But the fact that the future is not yet fixed is also cause for hope. In today's show, health expert Laurie Garrett argues that, while the "window is closing" to mitigate the pandemic's effect, there's still plenty to be done.
Like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the coronavirus pandemic is a world-shattering event whose far-ranging consequences we can only begin to imagine today.
This much is certain: Just as this disease has shattered lives, disrupted markets and exposed the competence (or lack thereof) of governments, it will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.
To help us make sense of the ground shifting beneath our feet as this crisis unfolds, Foreign Policy asked 12 leading thinkers from around the world to weigh in with their predictions for the global order after the pandemic.
What can people do to help as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb? Emerging disease expert Laurie Garrett says that’s the wrong question to ask. “It's not just what you can do,” the author of "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance" says. “It's what you should do.”
Global Health Expert to GZERO Media: Americans Have 2-3 Days to Make Tough Decisions
"Your days are counting down. I would say you have two or three days to make some very tough decisions as a household and you're going to be stuck with what you decide now. And those decisions include where do you want to hunker down for eight weeks?"
"Eight weeks is long enough of a framework that you realize this is a major disruption of my life. Right?”