Click Here to Read: Leading orchestras and musicians move to free online performances in response to the coronavirus pandemic By Clara Weiss on the World Socialist Web Site on March 17, 2020.
Igor Levit Image: A.Savin. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Author: Tamar Schwartz
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Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready
Click Here to View: Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready Ted Talk from March 2015.
In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training. As he says, “There’s no need to panic … but we need to get going.”