Bill Gates COVID-19 prediction COULD HAVE been right

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funkervogt
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Bill Gates COVID-19 prediction COULD HAVE been right

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From August 2020, before the first vaccine was approved:
At this point, are you optimistic?

Yes. You have to admit there’s been trillions of dollars of economic damage done and a lot of debts, but the innovation pipeline on scaling up diagnostics, on new therapeutics, on vaccines is actually quite impressive. And that makes me feel like, for the rich world, we should largely be able to end this thing by the end of 2021, and for the world at large by the end of 2022. That is only because of the scale of the innovation that’s taking place. Now whenever we get this done, we will have lost many years in malaria and polio and HIV and the indebtedness of countries of all sizes and instability. It’ll take you years beyond that before you’d even get back to where you were at the start of 2020. It’s not World War I or World War II, but it is in that order of magnitude as a negative shock to the system.
https://www.wired.com/story/bill-gates- ... y-garbage/

COVID-19 COULD HAVE BEEN eliminated in the rich world by now were it not for a stubborn minority of people refusing to take the vaccines. Gates (and others at the time) probably underestimated how pervasive the resistance would be.

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I don’t think things will go to at least 90% back to normal by at least 2024.
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