What would you like to see happen, the first time you hear about some people getting infected by some kind of airborne virus? yeah, the big risk is human-to-human transmissible respiratory virus. you d like to have a group connected with the world health organization that sees that outbreak early and is able to go in and look and sequence what it is, understand the nature of that, have some tools that aren t dependent on a specific pathogen that you can give people not just math bit also some drugs to block transmission and you want to stop it before it gets to a lot of countries, which is when it becomes a so-called pandemic. you have to nip it in the bud. these things are exponential. avoiding cases here, you know, saves lots of cases downstream. as you point out in the book, if we had stopped covid, what was it, by the middle of march, the number of people who could have died would have been a fraction of what it is now. that s right. to recognize you have a
Longer protection, broader protection, those can help us for this pandemic and we need them for the future. it s hard to overstate how unprepared we were for in what was sadly even somewhat predictable. so hopefully this is our big wake-up call to do like we do for earthquake and fire and war, to really be able to respond correctly. so, bill, let s imagine the next pandemic, okay? it starts up as many of these have started up some way in asia, probably east asia, for a whole variety of reasons. what is the bill gates plan? what would you like to see happen, the first time you hear about some people getting infected by some kind of airborne virus? yeah, the big risk is human-to-human transmissible