Responding to COVID-19 — A once-in-a-century pandemic? Bill Gates writes, in any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsibilities: solve the immediate problem and keep it from happening again. The COVID-19 pandemic is a case in point. We need to save lives now while also improving the way we respond to outbreaks in general. The first point is more pressing, but the second has crucial long-term consequences.
Excerpt from the New England Journal of Medicine, where the article originally appeared.
You can read the full article here: https://gatesnot.es/3btUpv4
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Rebuilding Notre-Dame (video): Filmmakers Chloé Rochereuil and Victor Agulhon documented the last weeks of Notre-Dame cathedral before the fire. Now, they‘re the first to capture the efforts to rebuild it - in virtual reality. https://bit.ly/3dwyqVX
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Dr. Atul Gawande: Keeping the coronavirus from infecting health-care workers: What Singapore’s and Hong Kong’s success is teaching us about the pandemic. https://bit.ly/2QLunvi
MR: Any current communications pro and or any wanna be communications pro, take 30 minutes to listen to this master class discussion on communicating during a crisis.
