Bill Gates on how to fight future pandemics
The coronavirus will hasten three big medical breakthroughs. That is just a start
By Bill Gates
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WHEN HISTORIANS write the book on the covid-19 pandemic, what we’ve lived through so far will probably take up only the first third or so. The bulk of the story will be what happens next.
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