The speech has gone down in history Bill Gates in 2015, when an American warned us all about the coming pandemic. His incredibly accurate predictions even caused a wave of various conspiracy theories that he himself was behind the emission coronawirusa.
“If anything kills more than 10 million people in the next few decades, it most likely will highly contagious virus – he explained then. Present pandemic It has already caused over five million recorded deaths.
Additionally Gates He believed that when such a viral catastrophe breaks out, we will not even be prepared for it. Unfortunately, he was right. Now, in an interview with a British charity, he stated that to prepare the world for future pandemics, a global effort worth tens of billions of dollars is needed.
One of the richest people in the world drew attention to the need for continued funding for projects aimed at improvement of vaccines, diagnostic tests or therapy. He also mentioned the need to create a new type of vaccine.
“We have vaccines that help maintain health but only slightly reduce transmission,” said the billionaire.
Microsoft’s founder also proposed the creation of a special task force for pandemics. The group would deal with organization, among other things “pandemic games”, that is, testing countries’ responses to hypothetical biological threats.
As an example of such an undertaking, he cited a situation in which a group of terrorists intend to infect people at ten different airports with smallpox. How would the world react to such an attack? Of course, during such tests, no one would actually be infected.
“I think there will be a fertile ground for this because we have lost trillions of dollars and millions of lives and citizens expect their governments not to let it happen again,” he said.
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