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Bill Gates has a few intelligent things to say for the long term. Interviews with Fareed Zakaria Sunday morning on CNN 1000am EDT.

Bill Gates: What the Pandemic Will Change

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has taken a leading role in global health through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, predicts in an Economist op-ed that Covid-19 will lead to three kinds of medical advancements. First, Gates expects progress in vaccines—particularly mRNA vaccines, which “use genetic code to give your cells instructions for how to mount an immune response” and “can probably be produced faster than traditional vaccines,” he writes. Second, Gates expects advancements in diagnostics, with home disease tests that work like pregnancy tests. Third, he predicts progress on antiviral treatments, which he calls an “underinvested branch of science.”

Gates also envisions new institutions and an effort to spread the benefits of science beyond rich countries. “In the years after 2021, I think we’ll learn from the years after 1945. With the end of the second world war, leaders built international institutions like the [United Nations] to prevent more conflicts,” he writes. “After covid-19, leaders will prepare institutions to prevent the next pandemic,” holding regular “germ games” to hone the next response.

Note to readers: Fareed will interview Gates on GPS this Sunday; tune into CNN at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET to see their conversation about Covid-19.

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