Bill Gates says we should treat and prevent pandemics like fires

That video has been viewed on YouTube more than 36 million times. In a follow-up talk at the TED conference in Vancouver last month, the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist said more than 90 per cent of those views came too late — once the COVID-19 pandemic was already underway.

“We didn’t do much to get ready, even though I wasn’t the only one out there saying that. A little bit of prevention would have made a big, big difference,” Gates said in an interview with The Sunday Magazine host Piya Chattopadhyay.

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