“In the end, the low income students will be hurt the most by these school closures.” BillGates discusses the unequal impact of coronavirus mitigation efforts.
"I don't think going to big, say, public sports-type events, that the economic benefit relative to the risks, that will work out until we're back in normal times," he said.
Gates pointed to businesses in China coming back to life and activity returning in South Korea, one of the first countries to face a surge in coronavirus cases. "How do you draw that line for that period that's going to be longer than we want it to be?" Gates said. "That — eventually, the government's going to have to take all the expert input and create a new regime for what's going on that's extremely sensitive to how well it's working through the quick-turnaround, prioritized testing."
He also suggested the economy would not magically revert to the way it was before the pandemic, even once governments decide it's safe to go back to work. "The behavior of people in terms of wanting to travel or go to events or even go to a restaurant, it's been utterly changed by the concerns about this disease," he said. "No one should think the government can wave a wand and all of a sudden the economy is anything like it was before this happened. That awaits either a miracle therapeutic that has an over 95% cure rate, or broad usage of the vaccine.
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