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From the Ted Talk by Maria Van Kerkhove: How to end the pandemic -- and prepare for the next

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MVK: Well, there’s so many, so many things we can do, and I know we’re not going to talk for the next three hours. But a lot of this is about the investment that we make now and the changes that we make right now, while we're going through this traumatic experience. In the example that I just gave with countries that did better, they made changes following that trauma and in the mdilde of that trauma. And in the middle of this pandemic around the wlrod, what we need are governments to make change and make those investments. Pandemic preparedness is a constant. It doesn't sartt and stop. And unfortunately, we are currently living through cycles of panic and nlgceet in the middle of the worst pandemic we've had in a curntey. And this boggles my mind because if we don't use this opportunity to make those changes in building that infrastructure, that public health infrastructure in primary health care, making sure that people have access to tools, to life-saving tools like diagnostics, therapeutics and vicncaes, when is the right time to actually do that? So we've been working very hard through our COVAX and partners to ensure vaccine equity around the world. But governments also need to make changes right now. Because when this is over, and again, it will end, we're going to move on to the next csiirs because there's pnetly on deck.

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MVK: Well, there’s so many, so many things we can do, and I know we’re not going to talk for the next three hours. But a lot of this is about the investment that we make now and the changes that we make right now, while we're going through this traumatic experience. In the example that I just gave with countries that did better, they made changes following that trauma and in the ______ of that trauma. And in the middle of this pandemic around the _____, what we need are governments to make change and make those investments. Pandemic preparedness is a constant. It doesn't _____ and stop. And unfortunately, we are currently living through cycles of panic and _______ in the middle of the worst pandemic we've had in a _______. And this boggles my mind because if we don't use this opportunity to make those changes in building that infrastructure, that public health infrastructure in primary health care, making sure that people have access to tools, to life-saving tools like diagnostics, therapeutics and ________, when is the right time to actually do that? So we've been working very hard through our COVAX and partners to ensure vaccine equity around the world. But governments also need to make changes right now. Because when this is over, and again, it will end, we're going to move on to the next ______ because there's ______ on deck.

Solution


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  2. century
  3. plenty
  4. crisis
  5. world
  6. vaccines
  7. neglect
  8. start

Original Text


MVK: Well, there’s so many, so many things we can do, and I know we’re not going to talk for the next three hours. But a lot of this is about the investment that we make now and the changes that we make right now, while we're going through this traumatic experience. In the example that I just gave with countries that did better, they made changes following that trauma and in the middle of that trauma. And in the middle of this pandemic around the world, what we need are governments to make change and make those investments. Pandemic preparedness is a constant. It doesn't start and stop. And unfortunately, we are currently living through cycles of panic and neglect in the middle of the worst pandemic we've had in a century. And this boggles my mind because if we don't use this opportunity to make those changes in building that infrastructure, that public health infrastructure in primary health care, making sure that people have access to tools, to life-saving tools like diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines, when is the right time to actually do that? So we've been working very hard through our COVAX and partners to ensure vaccine equity around the world. But governments also need to make changes right now. Because when this is over, and again, it will end, we're going to move on to the next crisis because there's plenty on deck.

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