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This was an unusual one, where the U. It did leave a bit of a vacuum. The thing we need to do better next time is the surveillance piece, the dedicated pandemic preparedness team , say several thousand people, that does germ games , modeling, ongoing respiratory surveillance and who keep their skills fresh by working on things like malaria and measles all the time.
Why is that and how do we fix the problem? We can do broad-spectrum antivirals [that could work against multiple viruses]. That takes a mix of academia and the private sector to build those up. And how do you trial those very quickly? But do you see any innovations that might come out of having to deal with this disease? What are the hopeful lifelines that you could throw out there?
Well, there's no doubt that having ignored the warnings about the pandemic this time, the rich countries, including the U. They'll do simulations to prepare. They'll have large-scale diagnostic capability immediately available—which the U. We'll mature some of these vaccine platforms that are not only worthwhile for pandemics, but will be used to make vaccines for malaria, TB, and HIV. Just like in war time, we've moved quickly and tried new things.
Even in terms of our lifestyle: can you use telemedicine, can you use online education, can you avoid some of the business travel we do? Our eyes have been opened up and that software is getting a lot better. It's a real acceleration there. It doesn't offset all the negative things that come out of the pandemic.
But yes, the ingenuity in the pharmaceutical companies, that's why we have six vaccine candidates—several of which are extremely likely to prove safe and efficacious by early next year. If this pandemic had come 10 years ago, our internet bandwidth wouldn't have let us do our office jobs. The vaccine platforms wouldn't be as far along.
So, it's phenomenal we can say that within a few years, with a little bit of luck on the vaccines, some generosity, and a real effort to get the word out that it's safe, this pandemic will come to a close. Do you think, as a last thought, the U. I mean, the problem is, is you get ready and then nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens. And then you get unprepared. But do you think that this will have made that impression a lasting one?
Well, we'll go into a post-mortem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made some mistakes at the start. And then you had things moved up to a political level without expertise, where the willingness to admit mistakes was zero.
The fact that we still have test results that take more than 24 hours, that is just a desire to say, "Oh, I solved the testing thing. So we still are performing way below what we should. I do think there'll be a lesson to let the professionals do their work. And there'll be lots of research and development about how you can ramp up testing drugs and vaccines very quickly.
Well, I hope there isn't a next one. But I appreciate the optimism around that. Bill, thank you so much for talking with us at National Geographic about your latest Goalkeepers Report.
All rights reserved. Read the transcript of their interview, which has been edited for length, below: Susan Goldberg Bill, it's so nice to talk with you about this Goalkeepers report.
Bill Gates As you say, in most years the reduction in malnutrition, the reduction in childhood death, the increase in literacy rates—there's this gradual progress that human life is getting better, people are living longer. Susan Goldberg And it has happened all so quickly.
Bill Gates Well, there are deaths all over.
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