In interview with POLITICO, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates lays out a battle plan that goes beyond responding to the coronavirus.
American billionaire Bill Gates attends a discussion during the 'Munich Security Conference' in Munich, Germany, on Friday. | Michael Probst/AP PhotoMUNICH — To health leaders across the globe, reaching the World Health Organization’s goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the planet’s population by mid-2022 is crucial to stave off future Covid-19 surges.
Gates, the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, sat down with POLITICO in Munich to talk about finding not only more effective ways of combating Covid-19 but also how to better prepare and respond to the next public health crisis. The two are interconnected, he said. Find solutions to the first — including improved production of Covid-19 vaccine and therapeutics as well as their distribution — and a future pandemic becomes easier to handle.
“It’s up to the countries. What does Ethiopia want? What does Nigeria want? If there’s Covid vaccination that goes on, the real benefit is where you can get any decent dollars per year of life saved,” the billionaire philanthropist said. “That’s going after people who are old, or have other conditions that make them seriously at risk of this thing.”
The Gates Foundation is one of the largest funders of the fight against Covid-19. It has given billions of dollars to support the distribution of vaccines as well as diagnostic and therapeutics. It has also donated $120 million to shore up country-specific and regional responses in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
That’s what dozens of global health leaders gathered at the Munich Security Conference to discuss this week.
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