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OCT 4 @ 10A MT - OCT 11 @ 11:45P MT
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A powerful, almost invisible force has radically altered the world over the past year. It’s hard to believe something as small as the COVID-19 virus could be so potent.
How this virus came to affect our everyday lives is something we are still grappling with globally as we also work to understand how it came to be. David Quammen spoke memorably at OT 2018 and now returns to explain the complicated and unnerving threat of zoonoses. As he prophetically wrote in his 2012 book, Spillover, “The next big and murderous human pandemic, the one that kills us in millions, will be caused by a new disease—new to humans, anyway. The bug that's responsible will be strange, unfamiliar, but it won't come from outer space. Odds are that the killer pathogen—most likely a virus—will spill over into humans from a nonhuman animal.”
How we deal with the consequences of COVID is key to Laurie Garrett’s everyday thinking. An expert on global public health and a regular on MSNBC, Garrett was profiled by the New York Times in an article titled, “She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?”. Her talk will focus on the original thinking needs to be done to build something that will save us all if we only listen to her. COVID-19 is not the first or the last virus to come at humanity, so what we understand about this unseen attacker is ever more critical.
Speakers
Laurie Garrett
Laurie Garrett wrote her first bestselling book, THE COMING PLAGUE: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, while splitting her time between the Harvard School of Public Health and the New York newspaper, Newsday. An expert on global public health and a regular on MSNBC, Garrett was profiled by the New York Times in an article titled, “She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?”. She will be speaking to COVID19 from the lens of global public health in our show, “What Do Viruses Really Want From Us?”, available Sunday, October 4 - Sunday, October 11.
David Quammen
David Quammen is an award-winning author who spoke memorably at OT 2018. He returns to our festival this year to explain the complicated and unnerving threat of zoonoses. As he prophetically wrote in his 2012 book, Spillover, “The next big and murderous human pandemic, the one that kills us in millions, will be caused by a new disease--new to humans, anyway. The bug that's responsible will be strange, unfamiliar, but it won't come from outer space. Odds are that the killer pathogen--most likely a virus--will spill over into humans from a nonhuman animal.”
Film
The Italian Doctor
A young Italian medical resident volunteers to serve on the frontlines of the coronavirus epicentre in Europe during the first wave of the global pandemic. To cope with the onslaught of coronavirus cases, Italy rushed 10,000 resident doctors into service. Dr. Alessandro Galli, 31, is one of them.
At the renowned Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Dr. Galli joins other physicians looking after COVID-19 patients in critical condition in intensive care. His daily encounters with death and isolation, forces him to question his actions and the need for control and balance during this time of unprecedented uncertainty.
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