The US national response to the pandemic COVID-19 so far, “weak”, Bill Gates believes. The co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and co-founder of Microsoft said TIME senior correspondent health Alice Park during a discussion TIME100 Thursday talks that would enter the COVID-19 US response “on a relative basis and absolute, not a passage grade. “But, he added, the US funding for vaccine and therapeutic research” was the best in the world “so that when you have coordinated global sharing of resources, could the United States” potentially high scores “in this area. While a global pandemic as COVID-19 argued Gates, governments need to work together, the virus is completely eliminated to guarantee. has led the United States historically global responses to previous health crises such as smallpox or polio, Park said, but COVID-19 was less a head bit ‘. Instead, countries that SARS, or MERS were exposed reacted faster and “there are about six countries that have gone directly to the private sector and said okay, as we received a mass testing” a very strong model. “?” We are committed to buying the test, he said. “It has never happened in the US” Read more: Mapping the coronavirus epidemic around the United States and around the world in the face of long US expectations that do a lot of testing “a waste of money,” he continued adding adding that, while the transfer of responsibility for testing in the US, they “do not have enough” force to accelerate the test. “The more you know about this, the more you want, the experts were taking charge,” Gates said. If the numbers of COVID-19 United States get their downward in the coming months, he noted that a “big difference” in terms of making the death rate “in the go fall”, which “could be a challenge, because the people are indoors more, it is more cold and flu symptoms confused. “If could bring new developments in vaccine and therapeutic research, though. “Within two months we can add some new antiviral antibodies and that can make a big difference,” Gates said, adding that countries need to work together to deploy these resources globally. Companies need to create vaccines, to coordinate with those who adopt the factory capacity and tiered pricing “so that the poorest countries to the lowest price to get,” he continued. And governments must also ensure that the vaccine is associated with equal not only in the countries, but between countries. This is not only market forces can be done, he said. “The private sector alone, the highest price would simply calculates and releases only for the richest.” So far, the United States did not “appear in international forums in which to get the money for these tools to countries, is under discussion,” said Park. However, he continues, “which has yet to be completely resolved.” Copyright Image
Bill Gates on how the US can bring its COVID-19 fixes Answer: You want experts taking charge ‘
