We’re not as close to the end of this pandemic
as we would like but we have learned a lot
about how to stop this from happening again.
That’s why I’m excited to announce my new book,
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.
In the book I explain what we’ve learned from COVID.
Why didn’t we have vaccines more quickly?
Why is it hard to make billions of vaccines?
Why did therapeutics take so long?
I’ll propose the specific plan laid out in a pretty clear way.
The plan has three elements.
First, is to constantly improve health systems,
including in developing countries.
The second is to build
a global pathogen surveillance capacity
that no matter which country it shows up in,
we can apply resources and understand
what’s going on very quickly.
And finally, the innovation across the three different categories,
diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines,
that will get us far better tools,
far, far quicker than we did this time.
That will make it possible
to make disastrous pandemics a thing of the past.
I think it’s exciting that we have this opportunity
to use our best ideas to stop pandemics for good.