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Early detection will be crucial to prevent an virus outbreak going global and becoming the next pandemic, Bill Gates says.
You also need a global capacity looking out for threats, and responding to them, he tells a panel at Davos.
Gates also flags that many of the pandemic risks are in countries which in the next several decades won’t have the infrastructure needed to handle an outbreak - so international cooperation is crucial.
“The ideal is that you detect and prevent pandemics before they go global.” @BillGates #WEF22 panel on #pandemicpreparedness pic.twitter.com/0HZ776a5pw
— Pandemic Action Network (@PandemicAction) May 24, 2022
Helen E. Clark, chair of the WHO’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, warns that political resolve for co-ordinated change is is waning, while many people are now over Covid.
🌍 @PaulKagame on African lessons learned from #COVID19
— Pandemic Action Network (@PandemicAction) May 24, 2022
‼️ We have to deal with capacity issues to test, to treat, to manufacture vaccines
‼️ We have to avoid being dependent on others
‼️ We have to work together regionally#WEF22 panel on #pandemicpreparedness pic.twitter.com/75CzsBD67Z
Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, says Africa’s experience fo Covid shows that fixing capacity issues in testing, treatment, and vaccine production is crucial, as is co-operation between countries, and avoiding being dependend on others.
🌍 @PaulKagame on African lessons learned from #COVID19
— Pandemic Action Network (@PandemicAction) May 24, 2022
‼️ We have to deal with capacity issues to test, to treat, to manufacture vaccines
‼️ We have to avoid being dependent on others
‼️ We have to work together regionally#WEF22 panel on #pandemicpreparedness pic.twitter.com/75CzsBD67Z
