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In 2015,Bill Gates Gave a TED Talk eight minutes entitled "The following epidemic? We are not ready, "which is now viral because it seems to havecold in predicted back The coronavirus pandemic.

The part of the conversation that went on social media is from the beginning, when Gates, explains that the greatest threat to humanity when he grew up was a nuclear war, the biggest threat is now a virus.

"If anythingKills more than 10 million people In the coming decades, it is most likely to be a very contagious virus, rather than a war, "he said, which looks a lot like thecurrent pandemic.

Gates continued by saying that if we had invested a lot of money in nuclear deterrents, we had "very little invested in a system to stop an epidemic. The problem with the Ebola virus that made the cuff at the time due to a deadly epidemic in West Africa which cost more than 10,000 lives at that time, was "that we did not have any 'A system at all, "said Gates.

We "do not have a group of epidemiologists ready to go," we "did not have a medical team ready to go," and we "do not have a way to prepare people," he said. All this, Gates declared, was equivalent to a "overall failure. " Inmovies likeContagionThere is always a group of "beautiful" that epidemiologists are immediately working to save the day, but who is "just pure Hollywood," said Gates.

The reason the Ebola virus has not yet been spread due to "heroic work by health workers", as well as the fact that the virus has not been in the air and does not spread to cities. "It was a stroke of luck," said Gates. "If it had obtained more urban areas in many of the cases, the number of cases would have been much more. So, next time, we could not be so lucky. »

Gates used the Spanish influenza of 1918, which killed more than 30 million people, as an example of what could happen. The good news, he said, is that we didGreat technological and medical advances since.

He concluded the conference saying that we face the perspective of an epidemic in the same way that we had prepared for the war, investing in a health system in the world, knowing that the cost of the preparation would be not only to save lives, but also dollar billions a pandemic would cost. He also said to do that would make the world "more as well as safer. »

" There isno need to panic, "Gates said. "There is no need for spaghetti thesaurize boxes or get off the basement, but we need to go, because the weather is not on our side."

February 28 doorswrote a message On his blog saying that "Covid-19 started behaving a bit like the pathogen, we were once in a worried century. And he urged the government to take immediate action.

"Clearly, billions of dollars forThe fight against the pandemic is a lot of money "writing. But it's the extent of investments required to solve the problem. And given the economic pain that an epidemic can impose it suffices to look at the way Covid-19 disrupts supply chains and stock markets, not to mention life, it will be a good deal of people. . These are the actions that leaders should take now. There's no time to lose."