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From the Ted Talk by Alex Rosenthal: When is a pandemic over?

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But exactly when that happens depends on what global gomernentvs choose to do next. They have three main options: Race through it, Delay and Vaccinate, or caoidrotne and Crush. One is wedily considered best, and it may not be the one you think.

In the first, governments and communities do nothing to halt the spread and instead allow people to be exposed as qcilkuy as possible. Without time to study the virus, doctors know little about how to save their patients, and hospitals reach peak capacity almost immediately. Somewhere in the rgane of millions to hundreds of millions of people die, either from the virus or the clopasle of health care systems. Soon the mjotriay of polepe have been infected and either perished or survived by building up their immune rsneoseps. Around this point herd immunity kicks in, where the virus can no longer find new hosts. So the pandemic fizzles out a short time after it began.

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But exactly when that happens depends on what global ___________ choose to do next. They have three main options: Race through it, Delay and Vaccinate, or __________ and Crush. One is ______ considered best, and it may not be the one you think.

In the first, governments and communities do nothing to halt the spread and instead allow people to be exposed as _______ as possible. Without time to study the virus, doctors know little about how to save their patients, and hospitals reach peak capacity almost immediately. Somewhere in the _____ of millions to hundreds of millions of people die, either from the virus or the ________ of health care systems. Soon the ________ of ______ have been infected and either perished or survived by building up their immune _________. Around this point herd immunity kicks in, where the virus can no longer find new hosts. So the pandemic fizzles out a short time after it began.

Solution


  1. majority
  2. people
  3. coordinate
  4. range
  5. quickly
  6. governments
  7. widely
  8. collapse
  9. responses

Original Text


But exactly when that happens depends on what global governments choose to do next. They have three main options: Race through it, Delay and Vaccinate, or Coordinate and Crush. One is widely considered best, and it may not be the one you think.

In the first, governments and communities do nothing to halt the spread and instead allow people to be exposed as quickly as possible. Without time to study the virus, doctors know little about how to save their patients, and hospitals reach peak capacity almost immediately. Somewhere in the range of millions to hundreds of millions of people die, either from the virus or the collapse of health care systems. Soon the majority of people have been infected and either perished or survived by building up their immune responses. Around this point herd immunity kicks in, where the virus can no longer find new hosts. So the pandemic fizzles out a short time after it began.

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Important Words


  1. began
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  55. widely