Bill Gates' Keys To Reaching The "end" Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

The American IT entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, spoke harshly again about the coronavirus pandemic.

In an interview with the magazine Time, one of the most influential publications in the world, Gates assured that the world was not prepared for what the covid-19 brought, and argued that if the international community invested a fraction of the money that was lost in these months in factors such as disease surveillance, the manufacture of vaccines and better drugs would reduce the chances of another similar pandemic.

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“We lost billions of dollars because we weren’t prepared [para esta pandemia]. For tens of billions of dollars you can invest [en cosas como vigilancia, vacunas y terapias] and make the chance of this happening extremely low ”, he told Times businessman.

And I add: “It is an incredible bargain that will protect rich people from pandemics, but it will also allow us in global health, where inequalities are so dramatic, even to this day, despite the progress we have made, to have tools for things. such as the eradication of malaria, tuberculosis, VIH”.

When asked about the lessons of the pandemic, Bill Gates He took the opportunity to make an appeal to the governments.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates poses at the start of the funding conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in Lyon City Hall, France, on October 9, 2019. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) .

“We want rich countries to invest in new pandemic tools … We see investment in good surveillance and any of these tools: diagnostic, therapeutic, but particularly vaccines, which are incredibly useful even before the next one arrives. pandemic”, assured.

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And he also spoke of the role of USA in this health emergency. For him, although the North American country usually plays “a leadership role” in world problems, this did not happen with the covid-19.

He even pointed out that his link with the Covax mechanism, which seeks to supply vaccines in an equitable way in the world, arose in response to the passive role of the United States.

“USA [originalmente no asumió un papel de liderazgo]. It left a bit of a vacuum. Covax It was created in part because of that lack of American leadership. I don’t think we’ll ever do it the same way again, ”said the billionaire.

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