Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates gives high marks for social distancing efforts but low marks for testing. He says he thinks large public gatherings may have to wait until there's a vaccine.
In a conversation with NPR's Ari Shapiro, Gates gives the U.S. response high marks for social distancing efforts but low marks for testing.
How confident are you the U.S. will take a responsible, evidence-based approach to returning to normal? What I'm saying, what Dr. [Anthony] Fauci is saying, what some other experts are saying, there's a great deal of consistency. We're not sure yet which activities should be resumed because until we get a vaccine that almost everybody's had, the risk of a rebound will be there. ...
After this crisis subsides, what do you think the world needs to do to make sure that we're more prepared for the next one? Imagine that the diagnostics had been available in a month and the therapeutics in four months and the vaccine in less than a year. When you have something that grows exponentially, the speed of those responses makes all the difference. A few countries really jumped on the testing, prioritized it properly, and they are not going to suffer nearly the deaths or the economic loss that most other countries will go through. We should make sure that we have those platforms ready to go.
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