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The billionaire entrepreneur made his remarks during an appearance on the Late Show with Seth Meyers last week. Asked by his host why people should look at vaccinations as a global rather than national issue, Mr Gates replied: Well, the first reason is that we don t want other humans to die. And so helping them out is morally important but also we want the world economy to go back to normal.