6/16/2020
In this TED Talk, Karen DeSalvo, the chief health officer at Google, in conversation with current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and head of TED Chris Anderson, explains the partnership between big tech and public health in slowing the spread of COVID-19. This virtual discussion explores a new contact tracing technology recently rolled out by Google and Apple that aims to ease the burden on health workers and provide scientists critical time to create a vaccine.