Bill Gates Warns of ‘Bioterrorist Smallpox’ Pandemic

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GATES: “We need a new -- a new way of doing the vaccines. We didn’t get much in the way of therapeutics. You know, Dexamethasone and now molunpiravir could help but way less than -- than should have been the case. We didn’t get the diagnostics up and running in order to, you know, achieve what at least Australia, New Zealand showed -- that competent management could keep the death rate down pretty dramatically. And so I’m hoping in 5 years, I can write a book called, you know, 'We are ready for the next pandemic,' but it’ll take tens of billions in R&D -- the U.S. and the U.K. will be part of that. It’ll take probably about a billion a year for a pandemic task force at the WHO level, which is doing the surveillance and actually doing what I call 'germ games' where you practice. You say, 'OK, what if a bioterrorist brought smallpox to 10 airports, you know, how would the world respond to that? That -- there’s naturally-caused epidemics and bioterrorism-caused epidemics that could even be way worse than what we experienced today. And yet the advances in medical science should give us tools that, you know, we -- we could do dramatically better.”