Responding to Covid-19 - A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic? Author: Bill Gates

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"Responding to Covid-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?"

List of authors.

Bill Gates

 

This article was published on February 28, 2020, at NEJM.org.

 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762

 

"In any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsibilities: solve the immediate problem and keep it from happening again. The Covid-19 pandemic is a case in point. We need to save lives now while also improving the way we respond to outbreaks in general. The first point is more pressing, but the second has crucial long-term consequences.

 

The long-term challenge — improving our ability to respond to outbreaks — isn’t new. Global health experts have been saying for years that another pandemic whose speed and severity rivaled those of the 1918 influenza epidemic was a matter not of if but of when.1 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed substantial resources in recent years to helping the world prepare for such a scenario.

Now we also face an immediate crisis. In the past week, Covid-19 has started behaving a lot like the once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about. I hope it’s not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise.

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Nader had been warning of a pandemic for years.

https://www.oneidadispatch.com/news/ralph-nader-global-pandemics-not-if-but-when/article_6858fcb2-5d14-5d94-812c-b741707e8f6d.html