How pandemics spread

Dig into the history of pandemics to learn how viruses and disease spreads and what we can do to stop future outbreaks.

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In our increasingly globalized world, a single infected person can board a plane and spread a virus across continents. Mark Honigsbaum describes the history of pandemics and how that knowledge can help halt future outbreaks.

Lesson by Mark Honigsbaum, directed by Patrick Blower.

[vari]

Well. This got recommended at the right time.

[GhostChild]

This makes me wonder. suppose we colonize other planets in the future. Would interstellar pandemics become a thing?

[hands]

I never thought that I, would be in a pandemic. It's strange to think about.

[leroyma]

When the coronavirus has also infected the Youtube algorithm.

[sharif]

7:32

"The difference today is that science gives us the ability to detect pandemics right at the very beginning and to take actions to mitigate their impacts before they spread too wildly."

This didn't age well.

[justdoit]

Panic is truly the worst thing to accompany a pandamic.

[ryanfernandez]

Im canadian and im pretty sure that toronto is not in the USA.

EDIT: For all of you who are wondering where it says that Toronto is in the USA, it is at 6:21
(referring to where the arrow is pointing)

[kristinaprinzivalli]

We are literally the future grandparents who are like, "you think you have it hard, aye? Back in my day, 2020, we had to struggle to leave the house, to find toilet paper, mass panic"

[isamusika]

Who’s waching this in 2020 as a new coronavirus has started spreading in China?

[cosmiclatte]

7:22 "If history teach us any thing"
2020...Well, Maybe not much.

[katitax]

This is reminding us that we did everything wrong, we didn’t avoid a pandemic and a lot more people have died because of COVID-19 than they died of SARS, and this isn’t even finished yet

[red-wlgp]

Nobody:

People when they get the corona virus: *so anyway I started traveling*

[Luboman]

OMG, the 1918 pandemic is the stuff of nightmares. 50 million people dead, out of 1.8 billion people living in the whole world in 1919. That's nearly 3% of the world's population. In 2016 terms, with the world population being 7.3 billion, 3% would equal a total of 220 million people! Wow, crazy scary! Hopefully I will never experience such horror in my lifetime...

[pyrusinc]

Man, the hopeful note and the end of video feels mighty bittersweet in October of 2020. Jeez, how somber.

[danknormie]

Remember that time we were making memes about it and not taking it seriously

[vincentvandamme]

Nobody:
People with the virus: LET'S TRAVEL.

[meowmeowflappyhands]

I must say the first time I watched this video was in my biology class and I got chills from it. I've watched it at least 3x since. I really love the animation, music, and how smooth and unexpected the transitions are. I don't think I got that much insight from it other than how quickly diseases spread but this is a truly powerful video and when the word pandemic became panic, I was p shook

[rkeriadavis]

lesson : COVER YOUR DAMN MOUTH WHEN YOU SNEEZE

[AribellaAC]

My biology professor showed this to our class at this exact same time last year. I remember thinking that it was frightening… But that something like this would probably never happen in my lifetime. A year later I’m eating my words. I had to come back and watch it again. This is really haunting me right now. I really wanna email my professor... :(

[gnochhuos]

How to stop every pandemics:






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