Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer of Johnson & Johnson, said there’s one major myth about Ebola that needs to be debunked.
“One of the misconceptions is that Ebola is only really transmitted when you really touch a patient,” Stoffels said. “It’s not that transmittable.”
Stoffels said Johnson & Johnson is working with different partners on an effort to get out into the field and fight Ebola. He said the company has been working since 2008 on an Ebola vaccine, when the virus was far less wide-spread but considered a potential threat of bioterrorism.
Below, more updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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Hugh Evans and Jordan Hewson from Global Citizen, along with Arianna, sat down on HuffPost Live at Davos to share how HuffPost and Global Citizen are working together to help end global poverty.
Lesley Silverthorn Marincola, CEO of Angaza Design, writes for HuffPost:
I live in the heart of Silicon Valley and am still dependent on a piece of plastic I have to carry around with me everywhere. From gas to groceries, I pay with my credit card.
With the introduction of Apple Play only six months ago, Americans are only now starting to experience the smartphone-enabled proliferation of US mobile money services. Yet, perhaps because not every buyer has an iPhone 6 and not every vendor has a near field communication terminal, credit cards dominate the US market and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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“The instinct is to build back as it was, and really, Resilient’s thinking leads you to build back better and build back smarter,” Berkowitz said.
Goings said he’s been practicing transcendental meditation, which he says helps “find your better self,” since he was 22 years old. He said it especially helps while traveling.
“This is one of the most important discoveries of transcendental meditation, proven by research — you gain time,” he said.
Goings said there needs to be a “mindset change” in order to make sure women are empowered and have equal representation.
He said it’s a ridiculous economic decision not to empower women.
Rick Goings, CEO of Tupperware, said his company is the biggest seller of cookbooks in France, a statistic he thinks many will find surprising.
Njideka Harry on HuffPost Live at Davos
Harry said it’s important not only to teach young people good working skills, but also to show young people how to monetize those skills. She encourages reverse migration because of the “power of rural communities.”
She said young people “have the ability to stay in their community, develop a micro-business, hire people from their communities and make those communities better.”
