The World Health Organization is currently the only body that can create and manage a “top-notch” multi-domain team of health experts to detect, prevent and battle future pandemics, the Microsoft co-founder said, bemoaning its underfunding despite beeing the top donor.
With over 6.2 million people estimated to have died from Covid-19 and its comorbidities over the course of the pandemic, it is possible that the world has yet to see the worst, Gates warned in an interview with the Financial Times published on Sunday, just days before his new book, titled ‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’, is set to hit shelves.
“We’re still at risk of this pandemic generating a variant that would be even more transmissive and even more fatal,” Gates warned. While saying he doesn’t want to be a “voice of doom and gloom,” Gates estimated the risk that “we haven’t even seen the worst” of the current pandemic “way above a 5 percent,” and emphasized the need to develop new longer-lasting vaccines.
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