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The Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gateswarned during the Annual Munich Security Conference in Germany that afterl COVID-19the world will have to face a new pandemic caused by a different pathogen.
Bill Gates commented that the risks of severe illness from COVID-19 have been “dramatically reduced”, but that another pandemic almost certainly, this during a conversation with CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday, February 18.
Even though Gatespointed out that the possible new pandemic it would likely come from a pathogen other than the coronavirus, he added that the advances in medical technology they should help the world do a better job of fighting it, if investments are made now.
“We will have another pandemic. It will be a different pathogen next time,” he said. Gates. He also commented that after two years of the coronavirus situation, the worst effects have faded thanks to the fact that large sectors of the world’s population have gained some level of immunity and that their severity has also diminished with the omicron variant.
The Microsoft co-founder commented that in many places that was due to the virus itself, which creates a immunity level and “has done a better job of reaching the world population than with vaccines.” “The chance of serious illness, which is primarily associated with older age and obesity or diabetes, those risks are now dramatically reduced due to exposure to infection,” he pointed out.
The businessman said that it was already too late to reach the objective of the World Health Organization (WHO) from vaccinate 70 percent of the world’s population by mid-2022, as so far only 61.9 percent of the world’s population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Finally, he added the importance of acting with more speed for the vaccine development and that the world should move faster in the future to develop and distribute them. Furthermore, he called on governments to invest now so that next time they are prepared and act on time.
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