Bill Gates says 'we need a fire department for pandemics' as he worries we're unprepared for the next one
from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which analyzed outbreaks of infectious diseases over the past 400 years, found that there's a 38% probability of a pandemic similar to COVID-19 occurring in a person's lifetime – and that this could double in coming decades.
"I worry that we're making the same mistakes again. The world hasn't done as much to get ready for the next pandemic as I'd hoped," Gates said in his Times essay.– a network of health leaders around the world designed to promote collaboration between different countries. Or as Gates puts it in the NYT:"Just as firefighters run drills to practice responding to a fire, the Emergency Corps plans to run drills to practice for outbreaks.
First announced last October, it is part of a WHO strategy designed to be achieved by 2030. In a January, the WHO said:"All countries should be able to call on a national professional network of trusted and trained national experts ... in order to prevent and be operationally ready to rapidly detect and respond to new health threats."
"The Global Health Emergency Corps will represent massive progress toward a pandemic-free future," Gates wrote in the Times."The question is whether we have the foresight to invest in that future now before it's too late."Subscribe to push notifications
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