I think everybody does support the health workers who were heroes. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t get trusted voices in both parties talking about the benefit of masks and vaccines so that it wasn’t a political issue. I wonder, if it happened again, if it was March 2020, all over again with COVID-19, would we even be able to mount as effective a response as we did last time around? It’s been so politicized. When you look at how the US and the world responded to COVID-19, whether it’s masks or vaccines or shutdowns, closures, it’s become so political. All the more reason to make these investments in preparedness. It certainly could have been a more contagious virus and it could have been more lethal. Here we’d make sure that this team had those skills and was always practicing.īy the way, in some ways we were lucky with this pandemic. So it’s easy to take your personnel and go work on other things. So they need about a billion a year, 3,000 more people that would stay dedicated to pandemics. They’re not funded to fly in where there’s an outbreak. Well, they’re not funded actually to go to countries and practice. Tell me about … You have this germ team that you propose. Is that a pretty good summary of the book? If you spend billions, now you save trillions later.
You’ve argued that basically disease is inevitable, but pandemics are not.
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So the debate about exactly how to invest in that preparedness, now is the right time, even though we’re still trying to get out of this one. A few countries that were more ready, like Australia, have 10% the deaths that we have. So we take it seriously, because if one house burns down, it can affect an entire community. The US alone has over 300,000 full-time firefighters. Well, in firefighting, we’re all trained to know that there’s the exit. We need a global firefighting team that’s ready to find the next pandemic and respond to it. One idea, you compare it to firefighters. You’ve got a whole bunch of ideas on how to actually prevent the next pandemic. There’s something strangely optimistic about this book. With a few key steps, we can make sure this won’t happen again. I mean we’ve had tens of millions of deaths, trillions of dollars of economic loss, education loss, mental depression. Well, I don’t want us to wait until we forget about how awful this has been.
Why is this the moment to have this conversation? You’re out here promoting a book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, and you know people are sick and tired of hearing about the pandemic. Well, I think this is the definition of what they call a hard sell. So, Bill, we have so much to catch up on. It’s also been a year of upheaval in his own life after he and Melinda, his wife of 27 years, announced their divorce one year ago today. His new book How to Prevent the Next Pandemic is out today. Well, he’s sounding the alarm again this morning. He also famously predicted the world was unprepared for a pandemic in a 2015 Ted Talk that was unfortunately accurate and has been viewed now 43 million times. Since then, he’s been using the fortune that earned him to change the world, the Gates Foundation giving away tens of billions of dollars over the past decade. Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft nearly 50 years ago at the forefront of the computer age that changed the world.
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