Maria Van Kerkhove, the COVID-19 Technical Lead of the World Health Organization (WHO), believes that we can get out of this pandemic. The question is how fast and how can we apply our experience which learned from the past two years to the future. In conversation with TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Van Kerkhove provides insights on the Omicron variant, details a pandemic preparedness protocol under development at WHO and shares what we all can do to bring the pandemic to a speedy end. "Remain vigilant," Van Kerkhove says. "Everything you do ... will either get us closer to ending this pandemic -- or it will prolong it."