Microsoft (MSFT-US) founder Bill Gates (Bill Gates) said on Friday (18th) that although the risk of the new crown epidemic has been greatly reduced, it is certain that another pandemic is coming.
Bill Gates expressed optimism at the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday that two years after the new crown epidemic swept the world, the worst impact has subsided, because many of the world’s population has been vaccinated, has a certain degree of immunity, and the risk of lethality has increased with the new virus. Variant virus Omicron rises and weakens.
However, Gates said: “The risk of serious illnesses associated with the elderly, obesity or diabetes has been substantially reduced, but the Covid-19 pandemic is not the last global pandemic.”
“The world will usher in another pandemic, a potential new one that could originate from a different pathogen than the coronavirus,” Gates predicted.
Faced with the potential threat, Gates called on governments to invest immediately, as advances in medical technology will help the world better deal with such diseases, including the realization of standardized platforms including RNA (mRNA) technology for faster development and production of vaccines .
In recent months, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust have partnered to donate a total of $300 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)Dollarto combat the COVID-19 virus and prepare for future pandemics.
Bill Gates accurately predicted a global pandemic in 2015, when he said in a TED talk: “If there is anything that can kill tens of millions of people in the next few decades, it is likely to be a highly A contagious virus, not a war…not a missile, but a microbe.” Then, in early 2020, the new crown epidemic began to sweep the world.
Before the deadline, according to data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, the number of confirmed cases worldwide has exceeded 420 million, and the number of deaths has exceeded 5.86 million. More than 10.5 billion vaccine doses have been administered in 184 countries worldwide.