Dec 6, 2021
Should governments invest in pandemic preparedness like they do military readiness?
Nurses care for COVID-19 patients in a makeshift ICU at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, in January. Some seven months later, hospitals are once again running out of ICU beds.
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From the BBC World Service: Professor Sarah Gilbert, who helped develop the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, says more investment is needed now to help prevent future pandemics. Plus: A new gadget dubbed "Earth's black box" can record 50 years worth of climate data. And, a look at whether green hydrogen could help future-proof climate goals.
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