In a communication on his podcast together with actress Rashida Jones and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the American Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Bill Gates unveiled his vision for the coronavirus.
According to him, things will not return to normal for a long time. The founder of Microsoft is of the opinion that even the invention of the vaccine will not return the world to normal. Even if the US completely eliminates the virus, according to Bill Gates, no one will return to normalcy if the whole world has not eliminated the virus. Normalcy will return when not only the US has the pandemic under control, but when the rest of the world does the same.
As for the next pandemic. Gates was optimistic. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a nightmare for many people and states, but the next one will not be. Gates said that where a killer pathogen strikes again, the world will do better.
"The main reason that will have less destructive impact is the fact that we are practicing. Testing tools will be better. "We will not be so stupid the second time," he said.
Five years ago, on March 18, 2015, Bill Gates had only the pandemic at the center of his discussions. Gates posted on his GatesNotes page the article "We are not ready for the next epidemic." Published an op-ed in The New York Times entitled "How to Fight the Next Epidemic." He published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine : "Gates B. The Next Epidemic - Lessons from Ebola." And went to Vancouver, Canada, to give a TED Talk . Title: “The next pandemic? We are not ready. " Within the same day, on different platforms, Gates delivered the same message: Chances are we will face a viral epidemic and be unprepared.
