Bill Gates attended the Munich Security Conference last weekend. In addition to the founder of Microsoft, the event was attended by heads of over 30 countries, representatives of NATO and the United Nations. According to Gates, the risk of a serious disease from Covid-19 is behind us, but another pandemic is actually certain.
How much does Bill Gates know?
Published Feb. 21, 2022 14:19
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Speaking to CNBC journalist, Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said the potential new pandemic ahead of us was likely to be related to a pathogen other than the coronavirus. However, he added that advances in medical technology should help combat such a threat effectively.
Two years after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Gates said the worst was behind us as a large proportion of the population had gained adequate levels of immunity. In his opinion, it was possible to produce it more thanks to Omicron than vaccines. According to the richest man in the world, it is too late to reach the World Health Organization's goal of being vaccinated against the coronavirus of 70%. world population by mid-2022. Currently, 61.9 percent. of the global population have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. In the future, Gates added, the world should develop and distribute vaccines faster. "Next time, we should do it in six months, not two years," said Gates, adding that standardized platforms would make it possible, including information RNA (mRNA) technology.
The mischievous wonder how much Bill Gates really knows. The answer may be ... in a book that Gates is planning to publish in May - with the telling title: "How to Avoid Another Pandemic?"
Source: CNBC
