Bill Gates Gives TED Talk Proposing New Global Team to Quickly Prevent Epidemics

Bill Gates shares a statistic about the COVID-19 pandemic. 'If we'd been able to stop it within 100 days, we would've saved over 98% of the lives.'
'Viruses spread exponentially, and so if you get in there when the infection rate is fairly small, you can actually stop the spread.'
In a new TED talk, Gates argues that we did learn a lot from this pandemic — enough to build a prevention system for next time. 'Covid 19 can be the last pandemic if we take the right steps.' But the answer isn't vaccines. 'We also need vaccines, but we want to stop the outbreak before we have to do a global vaccination campaign.' And then Gates points out that currently it could take months to get resources to a low-income country experiencing an outbreak.

Read on for Slashdot's report on Gates' proposed solution — and how he feels about his own prominence in anti-vaccine misinformation.

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