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Bill Gates discussed his book "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic", mentioning its explanation of preventing future pandemics and the need for preparedness, similar to fire drills, and criticism he faced for discussing the topic.
Well, the risk is always there. We actually were pretty lucky that we won 100 years without a really terrible pandemic. 1918 Spanish flu, now COVID. And we shouldn't expect it'll be that long next tim...
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Bill Gates discussed his book "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic", mentioning its explanation of preventing future pandemics and the need for preparedness, similar to fire drills, and criticism he faced for discussing the topic.
Well, the risk is always there. We actually were pretty lucky that we won 100 years without a really terrible pandemic. 1918 Spanish flu, now COVID. And we shouldn't expect it'll be that long next time. It's not that hard to get ready. You need to drill like you do for fire.
You know, I like how you lay out in the book what to do to prevent the next pandemic.
You gave a TED Talk a while ago talking about basically what we just went through over the past two years and then people blamed you for creating it because that's how things work if you say it, it happens.
So, how do you do that? Well, you see people getting sick. You see elevated deaths and you go in there and you actually take and you sequence it early on. And then you have a global group that is ready to go, kind of like a fire squad, comes in and very quickly you diagnose people.
My goal, like with my climate book, was to elucidate it in a way that would be quite straightforward.