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What happens to Cassandras when their warnings become reality? If you are epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, you work to Contagion. In the last year, Brilliant—best known for his work in helping to eradicate smallpox—has been active in helping people understand Covid-19, as founder and CEO of Now, along with noted epidemiologist Ian Lipkin and Pandefense Advisory colleagues Lisa Danzig and Karen Pak Oppenheimer, he has This interview is my fourth pandemic session with Brilliant. The We haven't knocked it yet! We've been working at polio for 70 years since you read that article on the front page of the newspaper saying polio is conquered. That's my point. It doesn't happen overnight, and it doesn't happen the way people envision it. The threshold for herd immunity is when, on average, one case is able to infect fewer than one other case. It’s a math equation: Herd immunity means the effective reproductive number—R—is less than one. In that case, the pandemic fritters out. But with every new variant that is successful, R increases, crowding out the incumbent. Take a look at Brazil right now, where the again? They were infected by the P.1 variant on top of having been infected by the original, because the P.1 variant was more transmissible. Here in the US, 30 percent of people say they're not going to get vaccinated. We don't If you have half the population vaccinated, can we still have an incredibly destructive spike? Of course. We're all customers for the virus. There's no wal...

Education Spouse Girija Brilliant Children 3 Lawrence Brilliant (born May 5, 1944) is an American Brilliant, a technology patent holder, has been the CEO of public companies and venture backed start-ups. He was the inaugural Executive Director of Early life and education [ ] Brilliant was born in Career [ ] In 1969, a group of American Indians from many different tribes, calling themselves Indians of All Tribes, Medicine Ball Caravan, playing a doctor in a film about a tribe of hippies who follow the Civil unrest stopped the relief caravan so he spent several years in India studying at a Miracle of Love: Stories of Neem Karoli Baba. In December 1978, he became a co-founder and chairman of [ citation needed] When he returned to the United States, he became a professor of international health at the In 1985, he co-founded, with He spent the first half of 2005 as a volunteer helping out in On February 22, 2006, In July 2006, he was awarded the Following the Contagion, released the following year in 2011. In May 2013, he gave the commencement speech at Imagine that arc of history that Martin Luther King inspired is right here with us. The arc of the universe needs your help to bend it towards justice. It will not happen on its own. The arc of history will not bend towards justice without you bending it. Public health needs you to ensure health for all. Seize that history. Bend that arc. I want you to leap up, to jump up and grab that arc of history with both hands, and yank it...

Larry Brilliant says he doesn’t have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, Now the unthinkable is here, and Brilliant, the Chairman of the board of Ending Pandemics, is sharing expertise with those on the front lines. We are a long way from 100 million deaths due to the novel coronavirus, but it has turned our world upside down. Brilliant is trying not to say “I told you so” too often. But he did tell us so, not only in talks and writings, but as the senior technical advisor for the pandemic horror film Contagion, now a top streaming selection for the homebound. Besides working with the World Health Organization in the effort to end smallpox, Brilliant, who is now 75, has fought flu, polio, and blindness; once led Google’s nonprofit wing, Google.org; co-founded the conferencing system the Well; and has traveled with the Grateful Dead. We talked by phone on Tuesday. At the time, President Donald Trump’s response to the crisis out of here. The conversation has been edited and condensed. Steven Levy: I was in the room in 2006 when you gave that TED talk. Your wish was “Help Me Stop Pandemics.” You didn't get your wish, did you? Larry Brilliant: No, I didn't get that wish at all, although the systems that I asked for have certainly been created and are being used. It's very funny because we did a movie, Contagion— People say Contagion is prescient. We just saw the science. The whole epidemiological community has been war...

The tragedies and economic impact of Brilliant, who is the founder and CEO ofPandefense Advisory, is best known for having been a key member of the successful World Health Organization’s Smallpox Eradication Program. He was previously the president and CEO of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, vice president of Google, and the founding executive director of Google.org. Brilliant is an M.D. and M.P.H. who is board certified in preventive medicine and public health. He also serves as a member of strategic advisory committees for the Berkeley School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley; Omidyar Network; and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Venture Capital. In addition to his medical career, Brilliant co-founded The Well, a pioneering virtual community, with Stewart Brand in 1985. He also holds a telecommunications technology patent and has served as CEO of two public companies and other venture-backed startups. Brilliant is the cofounder of Brilliant earned a Master of Public Health degree in health planning and economic development from the University of Michigan, and he received his M.D. from Wayne Medical School. He has received several awards from the Government of India and from WHO. In 2005, he received an honorary Doctor of Sciences degree from Knox College, and he was named “International Public Health Hero” by the University of California. In February 2006, he received the Sapling Foundation’s TED Prize. Larry Brilliant is available to advise your o...