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Bill Gates on how we must respond to the COVID-19 pandemic

The TED Interview

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Is This the Biggest Pandemic?

Last month, you wrote that this could be thesit of once in a century pandemic. Is that hw you think of that still? Well, it's awful to say this, but we could have a respiratory virus whose case fatality rate was even higher. If this was something like smallpox, you know, that kills 30 % of people. Ah, how many people end up dine? Ah, hopefully. And if we do the right things, it won't be a gigantic number.

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