I believe that the name Bill Gates is not unfamiliar to everyone, William Henry Gates III, kbe, nicknamed Bill Gates, is a famous American capitalist, investor, software engineer, philanthropist.
He founded Microsoft Corporation with Paul Allen, was chairman, CEO and chief software designer of Microsoft, and holds more than 8% of the company's common stock and is the company's largest individual shareholder.
From 1995 to 2007, Bill Gates was the world's richest man for 13 consecutive years.
Recently, Microsoft founder Bill Gates warned that the next pandemic could be more unpredictable and uncertain than the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed 5 million lives, so countries should invest tens of billions of dollars in research and development in the pharmaceutical field as soon as possible to prepare for future epidemics.
Comprehensive foreign media reports, Bill Gates in an interview with the British think tank "policy exchange" (policy exchange) pointed out that the new crown epidemic, which has caused many deaths and huge financial losses, has proved that human beings currently have no way to completely block the spread of the virus, even after the advent of the vaccine, it can only slightly reduce the virus infection, because the vaccine is more effective in preventing serious diseases, so "we need to create a better new vaccine manufacturing method."
Bill Gates warned that the next impending pandemic could be more uncertain than covid-19 itself, so countries should invest huge sums of money to improve programs such as vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests to effectively contain future epidemics, "developed countries like the UNITED Kingdom and the United States must spend tens of billions of dollars to fund this research, which may be expensive, but it has the potential to eradicate influenza and the common cold."
He also suggested that the World Health Organization (WHO) should set up a pandemic task force and use "germ games" to practice simulating how to respond to similar incidents, "who may need $1 billion a year in prevention funds to monitor and simulate, such as what should we do if terrorists take smallpox to 10 airports today, and how should we respond?" ”
He added that what people should prepare for the next pandemic involves lowering vaccine prices and having large factories produce vaccines.