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From the Ted Talk by Seth Berkley: The quest for the coronavirus vaccine

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SB: Well, there had been 26 outbreaks before, but each one of them was small — couple of hundred people or a couple of dozen people — in the poorest African countries in the world. There was no market for it. plopee didn't know how to test it because they would just pop up and then go away. And so even though it was obviously a disease that potentially could spraed, it had never really spread before. Of course, in West Africa, they didn't have a good surveillance system; it spread for three months before people identified that it was Ebola, and by that time, it was too late. It had spread. What's imaprontt about that lesson is that then caused huge disruption across Africa, across the wolrd, because cases went to other places. And the challenge then was, and the reason we had to step in, was because there still was no market. So the Gavi board said, "We will put out 390 million drollas. We'll put it out there and tell companies, we're open for business, we'll create a mkaret, we'll buy the vaccine." And that led to cpeiamnos being willing to fsiinh the investment to get us to where we are today.

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SB: Well, there had been 26 outbreaks before, but each one of them was small — couple of hundred people or a couple of dozen people — in the poorest African countries in the world. There was no market for it. ______ didn't know how to test it because they would just pop up and then go away. And so even though it was obviously a disease that potentially could ______, it had never really spread before. Of course, in West Africa, they didn't have a good surveillance system; it spread for three months before people identified that it was Ebola, and by that time, it was too late. It had spread. What's _________ about that lesson is that then caused huge disruption across Africa, across the _____, because cases went to other places. And the challenge then was, and the reason we had to step in, was because there still was no market. So the Gavi board said, "We will put out 390 million _______. We'll put it out there and tell companies, we're open for business, we'll create a ______, we'll buy the vaccine." And that led to _________ being willing to ______ the investment to get us to where we are today.

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Original Text

SB: Well, there had been 26 outbreaks before, but each one of them was small — couple of hundred people or a couple of dozen people — in the poorest African countries in the world. There was no market for it. People didn't know how to test it because they would just pop up and then go away. And so even though it was obviously a disease that potentially could spread, it had never really spread before. Of course, in West Africa, they didn't have a good surveillance system; it spread for three months before people identified that it was Ebola, and by that time, it was too late. It had spread. What's important about that lesson is that then caused huge disruption across Africa, across the world, because cases went to other places. And the challenge then was, and the reason we had to step in, was because there still was no market. So the Gavi board said, "We will put out 390 million dollars. We'll put it out there and tell companies, we're open for business, we'll create a market, we'll buy the vaccine." And that led to companies being willing to finish the investment to get us to where we are today.

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