The National Microsoft chief says new taskforce is needed to prepare world for natural and terrorist-made pandemics
Bill Gates has called for a new $1 billion World Health Organisation Pandemic Task Force to run “germ games” in preparation for future pandemics caused naturally or by bioterrorists.
The Microsoft co-founder’s comments came in the second part of an interview for the Policy Exchange think tank with former UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
In the first part, Mr Gates said that rapid innovation was needed to meet the world’s 1.5°C climate target.
In the sequel he was equally candid, condemning the world’s lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic.
âIt was 2015 that I gave the Ted talk and wrote a number of papers titled, ‘We’re not ready for the next pandemic’,” he said.
“And sadly that was a better forecast of what would happen than anyone would have wished for. The economic damage, the deaths â it’s been completely horrific.”
Mr Gates said a “new way of doing the vaccines” must be found and that the diagnostics were never “up and running in order to achieve what at least Australia and New Zealand showed, that competent management could keep the death rate down pretty dramatically”…READ FULL ARTICLE HERE…(thenationalnews.com)
