BBC
Microsoft founder Bill Gates discusses the global fight against the coronavirus
Well, there's the period when I and other health experts were saying that this was the greatest potential downfall the world faced.
Going back quite a way with a speech in 2015 (TED) and a New England Journal of Medical article about this specific thing.
So we definitely will look back and wish we had invested more. So that we could quickly have all the diagnostics, drugs and vaccines. So we under invested. Which was my goal, was to get that to happen. We did do CEPI, which helped with some of the vaccine platforms. But not even 5% to what we could have done. Then there is the period where the virus shows up in those first few months. What were the tests prepared?
Did countries think through getting their ICU and ventilator capacity up? There will be time for those postmortems. Very few countries are going to get an A-grade for what that scrambling looked like, Now here we are, we didn't simulate this, we didn't practice so both the health policies and economic policies, we find ourselves in uncharted territory.
KEY POINTS
• We didn't simulate this, we didn't practice? Lies
• 2015 TED Conference The next outbreak? We’re not ready. it is close to what's happening now BBC says
• Event 201 Simulation Exercise 2 Months after a real Pandemic.
• The thing that will get us back to the world we had before coronavirus is the vaccine and getting that out to all 7 billion people.
• How hard it's going to be to get back to the normal life we had before Bill Gates says.