The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trevor Interviews Bill Gates About COVID-19

Episode Date: April 3, 2020

Trevor covers coronavirus news, and Bill Gates weighs in on the cause of the pandemic and the resources needed to end it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What's going on everybody? Trevor Noah here. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Social Distancing Show. It is now day 18 of staying at home to prevent the spread of coronavirus. And here's your quarantine tip of the day. I know these have been helping you live your life. If you crank up the thermostat high enough, just turn the temperature way up and then look directly into your light bulbs. It's basically like you're at the beach. You're welcome.

Anyway, on tonight's episode, Dr. Fauci gets a security detail. We talked to Bill Gates about fighting coronavirus, and America has moved on from toilet paper, and now they're hoarding guns. So let's get into it. Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. From Trevor's couch in New York City to your couch somewhere in the world. This is the Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah. Ears Edition.

Let's kick it up with some good news. Like everyone right now, scientists around the world are no longer thinking about anything other than the coronavirus. In fact, many scientists have dropped almost all other research and are only focusing on cures and treatments for COVID-19, which I think is great, because I think scientists were too busy working on random shit anyway. You know, there's always that one random scientist where you read a headline, like, new study says, ducks can only live for two seconds in space.

We didn't need to know that, Mr. Scientist. Who is even doing that experiment? How did you even get money for this? And scientists aren't just dropping other research. They've decided that they're going to be putting cooperation ahead of competition, and they're going to share research immediately rather than waiting, like they normally do for months, to publish their results and then get the credit for themselves. Which makes perfect sense to me. This is not the time to worry about credits. And trying to get credit for stopping coronavirus is a waste of your time anyways.

We all know President Trump is going to take the credit no matter what happens, so you might as well just relax. You're like, really, Trump? You did it? You're damn straight. How did you do it? I put the thing in the thing. And then, boom, it disappeared. And some. And some. And some. And some. And some. And some. And some. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. the companies who has announced a possible breakthrough

in vaccine developments is the cigarette giant British American tobacco. Yeah, those guys. They claim that proteins extracted from tobacco plants could lead to a cure for coronavirus. And you know what? I'm not surprised. They spent years destroying people's lungs. Of course, they know what it's all about. Corona virus is basically their competition. This is one of those to catch a killer you got to be the killer. It's like the Hannibal Lector of coronavirus. So scientists are teaming up. Tobacco companies are trying to do something good for a change, but in not so good news, there are now nearly one million coronavirus cases around the globe.

The number keeps going up. And here in the US, yesterday's death toll was over a thousand, the highest yet. And those are not the only bad numbers. A record 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment last week. Yeah, 6.6 million people file for unemployment. And I know it can be hard to wrap your mind around numbers like that, but just look at this graph that came out showing the spike in job losses. You see that? Look at that spike. You've never seen anything like, it looks like unemployment overdosed on Viagra and then got one of those four-hour bonus.

We have to call a doctor, but you call a doctor after the four hours. Before that, you've got to use what you've got. And that's not the only record being set right now. Over the past month, 3.7 million people have tried to buy guns. Yeah, the highest number the FBI has ever recorded. So during this pandemic, the two things people in America want the most are guns and toilet paper, which makes sense. Because if I see someone carrying a gun, I shit myself. I'll be honest with you, I don't know why stucking up on firearms is going to help you in the middle of a pandemic. If you want to protect yourself from outsiders, you don't need a gun, people.

Think out of the box. You just need a recording of someone coughing on a loop. Yeah, you just play that in your the house, the house, their Ah ha, uh-huh, uh-huh, now. There is one person out there who actually does need more protection right now, Dr. Anthony Fauci. The man whose calm leadership during this crisis has won him the respect of all intelligent people and President Trump. And according to reports, Dr. Fauci has now been assigned a security detail because of threats that are being made against him, which is insane. Why would you threaten Dr. Fauci? And authorities aren't sure where the threats are coming from, but police have released

a sketch of a potential suspect. And I don't know who it is because of the glasses, but that face looks familiar. Now unfortunately getting threats is fairly standard for anyone in the glasses, but that face looks familiar. Now, unfortunately, getting threats is fairly standard for anyone in the public eye, but what's not standard is that Dr. Fauci is also receiving lots of, quote, unwelcome communications from fervent admirers. Yes, that's a nice way to say that your groupies are crazy. And who would have thought, one day we'd be living in a world where the whole planet would be grounded and an epidemiologist would be the hottest man on earth?

People are just like, I gotta get me some of that Fauci. You know he got the vaccine, girl. He is the sexiest man on the paper. Who's sexier than Faucing? No one sexier. wasting their lives. Now, as the corona cases continue to grow, more and more governors around America are announcing their own belated stay-at-home orders for their states. They're staggering them out. Yesterday, after weeks of resisting the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, finally announced a lockdown for his state. And he did it on April Fool's Day. So Florida is officially locked down, which means Mickey Mouse and all of his friends will have to work from home, which I think is perfect for Donald Duck.

A dude has never worn pants. He was born for the teleconferencing life. You think anybody's wearing pants? But you wear pants? I don't wear pants. I would stand up right now. But you're not ready. I'm not ready. I didn't think about that before I started telladying. But to. And, I'm, I, I, I, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, toe, to, toe, toe, and I'm to, to, th. th. th. th. th. th. th, th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thr-a, thr-a, throoooooooooooooooo. thi, thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, thi about that before I started telling that joke, but I'm not wearing pants and I'm not ready. Oh, Georgia's another place that instituted a stay-at-home ban. The governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, declared a shelter-in-place order. And he explained the reason, he explained the reason that he didn't do it sooner is because he just found out that asymptomatic people can spread the virus. Yes. That's what he says. He says he just found out that people who don't show any symptoms can also spread coronavirus.

He just found that out. Yeah. And that's something that has been known widely for months. Yeah. How can a governor be so far behind the curve? A governor? Well, I just picture him now, what, watching season three of Westworld, like, guys, I'm starting to think that some of these people might be robots. I don't know.

Something about them. But let's move on. Because earlier today, I talked to someone who, unlike the governor of Georgia, actually does know a lot about the coronavirus, Mr. Bill Gates, welcome check it out. Bill Gates, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. It's great to be on. Let's jump straight into the first question that everybody would want me to ask. You delivered a TED Talk, where you predicted pretty much what is happening now. Now, thanks to the world we live in, that has spouted a bunch of conspiracy theories. Everything from Bill Gates invented this virus to prove himself right or he knew

it was going to happen and that's why he said it. Was that TED Talk about this virus or was that a hypothetical that has now come true? Well, I didn't know specifically that it'd be coronavirus and that it would hit in late 2019, but the goal of the talk was to encourage governments to make the investments so we could respond very quickly and keep the case numbers very, very low. And so sadly, this is not a case where, you know, I feel like, hey, I told you so. Because we didn't use that time when it was clear as the biggest threat to kill millions of people to have the diagnostic standing by, to be ready to ramp up a vaccine factory.

A few things were done. Some countries, our foundation funded some work that will help with the vaccines now, will help with the diagnostics. But most of what was called for, particularly in a New England Journal of Medicine article I did that went into way more specifics than I could in a short TED Talk, those things didn't get done. And so that's why it's taking us a long time to get a time to get a the their their their their their thi.. a short TED Talk.

Those things didn't get done, and so that's why it's taking us a long time to get our act together faced with this threat. Here's a question I have, as an individual, how is it that you as a non-government knew this information and knew that it needed to be acted on, and governments and organizations that are specifically tasked with protecting people from this information and knew that it needed to be acted on, and governments and organizations that are specifically tasked with protecting people from this very thing either didn't have the information or ignored it. What do you think happened there because I know you interact with governments, you talk

to organizations like the CDC, like the WHO, what went wrong? Well there are lots of individuals who were as worried as I was. You know, people like Dr. Fauci, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who thii, who thi, who thi, who thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th Well, there are lots of individuals who were as worried as I was. You know, people like Dr. Fauci who have been through various epidemics. And so when we had Ebola, Zika, SARS, MERS, we were lucky that they didn't transmit very easily. They weren't these respiratory viruses where somebody who's not very symptomatic and is still walking around can spread the disease in some cases to literally dozens of people. So the respiratory transmission, particularly because world travel is so intense. That's where I show the simulation in that speech and say, this keeps me up at night, more than even war,

which is no small thing. And yet, in terms of being systematic about, okay, let's run a simulation and see how would we reach out to the private sector for tests or ventilators and what kind of quarantine would we do? And as we enter into this, we haven't practiced at all. And so you can see it's, you know, every state is being forced to figure things out on their own. And it's very ad hoc. It's not like when a war comes and we've done, you know, 20 simulations of various types of threats and we've made sure that the training, communications, logistics, all those pieces fall into place very rapidly. You are in an interesting position where in many ways you are an expert on this topic

because of the work that you now do in philanthropy. You know your goal has been to eradicate malaria across the globe, focusing in Africa. You work with infectious disease, you work with experts in and around infectious disease. When you look at the coronavirus as it stands now, it's happened, leaders acted late, but what do you think needs to be done going forward? You wrote an interesting op-ed about this, but this, this, this, this, this, this, this, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi. You thi. You thi. You thi. You thi. Your thi. Your their, your their their their their their their their their their their their. Your their. Your their. Your their. Your their, your their, your their, your their, your their, your their, your their. your their their their their their their their their their their their the coronavirus as it stands now. It's happened, leaders acted late, but what do you think needs to be done going forward? You wrote an interesting op-ed about this, but what do you think we need to do from the ground up, from the people to the leaders to the private sector? Well the main tools we have right now are the behavioral change, the social distancing, which often mean staying at home most of the ti thi, are are are are are, are, are, are, are, are, are, are, are, the the the the the the the the th, and the th, and the th, and the the thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and the thi, thi, and the the thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the the the th, the the the th, the the the thi, the thi, thi, the thi, thi, thi, the thi, the thi, the thi, thi, the thi, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, thi, thi, their, thi, the social distancing, which often means staying at home most of the time,

and the testing capacity to identify who in particular needs get isolated and then testing their contacts to make sure that we can catch it so early that a lot of people who get sick don't in fact anyone else. Now, you know, so our foundation is engaged in projecting what's the ti. that a lot of people who get sick don't infect anyone else. Now, you know, so our foundation is engaged in projecting what's going to go on, the modeling, our partner, IHME, is, you know, telling each state what they should think about in terms of ventilators and capacity. Further on out, the work we're doing now to find a therapeutic, a drug to reduce the disease, to cut the deaths down, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you thi, you tho, you are tho, you're tho, you're tho, you're tho, you're tho, you're tho, the, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi. thi. thi, thi. the, thr-a, thr-a, throoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, the, the, th, on out, the work we're doing now to find a therapeutic, a drug to reduce the disease, to cut the deaths down, you know, we're hopeful that even in six months,

some of those will have been approved. But the ultimate solution, the only thing that really lets us go back completely to normal and feel good about sitting in a stadium with lots of other people, is to create a vaccine and not just take care of our country, but take that vaccine out to the global population and so that we have vast immunity and this thing no matter what isn't going to spread in large numbers. You have a unique vantage point in that you have been communicating with various governments around the world in and around their COVID-19 response, what they plan to do and what they

haven't done thus far. Which countries do you think we should be looking for models that work and can we apply those models to a larger country like the United States? So, you know, many people say Italy and Korea, yes, have their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th... their their their their th. We th. We thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi., thi., th., th., th., th., th., thi., th., thi...... thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the. We. We. We the. We. the. the. the. We. the. the. We.. We have the. We have the. the. the. the. the models that work and can we apply those models to a larger country like the United States? So you know many people say Italy and Korea yes have their numbers but they can't necessarily be applied to America. Is that true or not or is there a model that does seem to work and should be followed for everybody? Well countries have differences you know South Korea did get a medium-sized infection but then they used testing, enforced quarantine, contact tracing, and really bent the curve, even though it looked pretty scary there for a while.

The epidemic in the United States is more widespread than it ever got in South Korea. So we're like the part of China, Hubei province, where a lot of the cases were in one city, Wuhan. And the U.S. and China are different, you know, the lockdowns that we do won't be as strictly enforced, but they are very, very important. The way we do contact tracing won't be as invasive, and so won't be quite as perfect. But it is very good news that China, although they're maintaining a lot of measures, they are not seeing a rebound. They're not seeing cases coming back,

even though they are sending people back to the factories, and sending people back to schools. And, you know, so thank goodness, if we're seeing a big rebound there, the idea you could keep it under control, once you have a large number, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th, th, thu, they have thi they have thi thi, they have they have thi, they have they have they have they have they have they have thin, they have they have thi, they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're they're they're they're thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, th, so thank goodness if we're seeing a big rebound there, the idea you could keep it under control would want you have a large number of cases like the US does in many countries in Europe, then it, you know, would seem almost impossible. So it can be done, you know, China ended up with 0.01% of their population infected. Our goal is to stay, so it's only a few percent,

so at least the medical penalty isn't gigantic, even though the economic penalty will be very large. When you look at that balance between the economic penalty and the human penalty, there are some who have argued that the economic penalty will over time equal the human penalty. Now, you are one of the tho-penets. Now, so. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, so the, so the, so the the the the the the the the the the the the th, so th, so th. So, so thi, so thi, so the thi, so the the thi, so, so, so, the the the the the the their, their, their, their, thi, who have argued that the economic penalty will over time equal the human penalty. Now you are one of the few people in the world where you actually have enough money to tell us about whether or not an economy shifting in this way or another way is going to cause mass deaths. But how do you think we should be looking at this? Because yes there is an economy and yes there is human life but where do you think we should be looking at this? Because yes, there is an economy, and yes, there is human life. But where do you think the truth lies?

Well, the, there isn't a choice where you get to say to people, don't pay attention to this epidemic. You know, most people, they have older relatives, you know, they're worried about getting sick. The idea of a normal economy is not there as a their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their tr is a tr is a true. It is a true. It is a truice. It is a truice. It is a truth. truth. truth. truth. their is a truth. thi. their their their their their is their is their is their is. their is. their their their their their their their their the truth. the truth. the the the the the tr. tr. tr. tr. tr. tr. tr tr tru. tru. tru. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. truth. their their their their their their their the they're worried about getting sick. The idea of a normal economy is not there as a choice. About 80% of people are going to change their activities. If you get the other 20% to go along with that nationwide, then the disease numbers will flatten, hopefully in the next month, and start to go down, hopefully in the month after that. And then when they've gone down a lot, then in a tasteful way, using Prioritized testing,

you can start to reopen a lot of things like schools and work, probably not sports events, because the chance of mass spread there is quite large. And so to get back economically, taking the pain extremely now and telling those who wouldn't curb their activities, no, you must go along with the rest of society and not associate in a way that we have exponential increase in these cases. You know, that is the right thing, even though it's extremely painful. It's unheard of. And, you know, there are particular businesses that it's catastrophic for. That's the only way you get get so you can feel like you can say to the entire population, ideally in the early summer of things go well, yes now

please do resume and we are through testing making sure that it won't spread in some very very big way. So people will need the confidence that the system is working and smart people are making decisions and over-optimistic statements actually work against that. What do you think most people are missing right now? Because everyone has an opinion, you know, everyone from my mom to my friends, to people online, everyone has an opinion on coronavirus because we have very few centralized sources that people trust. But what do you think people are missing about this virus and this moment and what we need to be doing as people?

Because we know the basics. Wash your hands, stay at home, stay away from other people, try to maintain a world where people are moving as little as possible, but what do you think we're missing that people might make a mistake and and exacerbate what what th what th what th we th what th we th what th we th we th we th what th what th what th we th we are th we are th we are th we're th we're th we're th we're th we're th we're thi people thi people thi people are missing thi people are missing thi people thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi people are thi people are thi people are thi people thi people thi people thi people thi people thi people thi people thi people thi people thi people th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thiii. thi. thi. thi. thi. But what do you think we're missing, that people might make a mistake and exacerbate what we're going through now? Well, the thing that needs to get fixed in the next few weeks is to prioritize our testing capacity, which is going up, but making sure the right people are being tested. That will guide us in a very deep way. And who are the right people? If you're symptomatic or somebody you've been in close contact with tested

positive, you know, those are the broad categories. Of course in the front of the line you have health workers or essential workers who have to go, you know, keep the food supply, the medical system, water, electricity, internet, keep those things running for the people who are mostly at home. But that doesn't use up that higher percentage of the testing capacity. We have a lot of people without symptoms who are just kind of worried, and there we need to show them that until our capacity goes up a lot, they are going to have to wait. The worst thing we have is that if it takes you 124 hours to get the test result, then you

don't know, you haven't been told during the very key period where you're most infectious, to take extreme measures. And so we've got to get to the number the number the number the number the number the number to the number to the number the number to the number the number that, thuice, that, that, to get to get the number the number the number to get to thu., that, that, tho, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that that that that that that that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, tape, tape, tape, tape, tape, tape, tape, their ca, tape, their ca, toda, today, today, their, today, today, their ca, today, today, their caua, today, you're most infectious to take extreme measures. And so we've got to get not just the numbers up, that confuses people. It's the speed of the results. South Korea was giving those results in less than 24 hours. So if we have tests that are ramping up around the world, we're gonna see the numbers going up.

Now, some have said that number and the mortality rate or fatality rate can be deceptive because there are so many who aren't getting tested and are recovering, and so we don't really know how dangerous or how fatal this disease actually is. What is needed in the realm of testing? Like what I'm trying to say is I understand that you want to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to what is needed in the realm of testing? Like what I'm trying to say is I understand that you want to get as many tests as possible but but once we've tested as many people as we have tested what are we trying to get to as an end goal? Well for rich countries that do the right policies you should be able to plateau and get the cases down with less

than a few percent of the population infected. China, South Korea, you know, there are countries that absolutely have achieved that, and that means that your total deaths is actually not, not gigantic. Now, in developing countries, the ability to do lots of testing, uh, to do the teasks, uh, to do the to do the right to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do the to do the the the the to do their their their their to do to do their their to do to do to do to do to do to do to do their their their to do to do their their their their their their their their their their developing countries the ability to do lots of testing, to have the patients who have severe respiratory distress get treatment and do this social isolation, for developing countries it's far harder. And so, you know, there, will these measures actually stop it from getting to a large part of the population? Places like India, Nigeria.

You know, I was talking to President Ramaposa today, who's not only President of South Africa, he's the head of the African Union, and he's a very strong voice, encouraging the countries there to act quickly when the number of cases is still fairly low, which is true throughout sub-Saharan Africa right now. When you look at where we are now, the one thing that we can't deny is everybody has dealt with the coronavirus on a different timeline. You know, not just across the globe. I mean, even within the United States, you have states like Georgia and Florida that have

just implemented stay-at-home orders. You have many other states that haven't done it at all. Is this going to fundamentally undermine the efforts of other states and other countries that have shut themselves down because if the numbers dip in one country and another country hasn't had the same amount of shutdowns or people self-quariening, for instance if people from Brazil travel after this or if people from whether it's Belarus or Hungary or any other country where a leader hasn't taken it seriously,

will that not undermine the effort completely? Is there a point to doing this when everybody isn't doing it? Well, sadly, at some level of wealth, there'll be countries that no matter how hard they try, they will have a widespread epidemic. And so, again, sadly, the richer countries that do contain the epidemic will not allow people from those countries that do contain the epidemic will not allow people from those countries to come in, you know, unless they are quarantine or tested or prove they're immune. And so this is going to stop people going across borders

very dramatically these next few years till we get to that full vaccination. Within the United States is different because we're we get to that full vaccination. Within the United States is different because we're not gonna partition the country, and so therefore we are all in it together. We can't do what we're gonna do with foreign nationals, which is reduce the numbers a lot and have very strict screening there.

We're not gonna have it every state border, you know, some complex quarantine center. And so the whole country needs, even when you have small numbers, because those can exponentiate to big numbers so quickly, you know, the doubling time is like three days when you're still behaving in the pre-epidemic way. So each country has to get the entire populace, even some who initially resisted, maybe for very good reasons, because the economic effect on them is strong. So this is powerful medicine, but if you take a big dose of it earlier, you don't

have to take it for nearly as long. You are one of the first people to come out and donate a large chunk of money to fighting coronavirus or helping medical workers get the equipment they need. I remember the last I read it was yourself and your wife Melinda who had pledged over $100 million. It seems though that money isn't able to fix this problem. It seems like governments around the world are trying everything they can, but it doesn't seem like it can be fixed.

What are you hoping to achieve in this moment in time? Well, if we get the right testing teeea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea teateateateateateateateateate, to be to to to to to to be to be to be to be to be to be to be the, to be to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to be, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi.... thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the, the, the. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the t get the right testing capacity, you can change by literally millions, the number who are infected. And governments will eventually come up with lots of money for these things, but they don't know where to direct it, they can't move as quickly. And so because, you know, our foundation has such deep expertise in infectious diseases, we've thought about the epidemic. We did fund some things to be more prepared like a vaccine effort. Our early money can accelerate things. So for example, there's of all the vaccine constructs, the seven most promising of those, even though we'll end up

picking at most two of them, we're gonna fund factories for all seven. And just so that we don't waste time in serially saying, okay, which vaccine works, and then building the factory. Because to get to the best case that people like myself and Dr. Fauci are saying is about 18 months. We need to do safety and efficacy and build manufacturing and they're different for the different constructs and so we'll abandon, you know, it'll be a few billion dollars,

we'll waste on manufacturing for the constructs that don't get picked because something else is better. But a few billion in this situation we're in where there's trillions of dollars, that's a thousand times more, trillions of dollars being lost economically, it is worth it. In normal government procurement processes and understanding which are the right seven, you know, in a few months those may kick in. But our foundation, you know, we can get the, you know, we can, we can, you the, you know, you know, you know, you know, you the, you know, you the, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, you, you, you, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, understanding which are the right seven, you know, in a few months those may kick in. But our foundation, you know, we can get that bootstrapped and get it going and, you know, save months because every month counts. You know, things can reopen if we do the right things in the summer, but it won't be completely normal.

You'll still be very worried. You know, we may decide masks are important, although right now they're in short supply for health workers, so people should not go and hoard those. But the capacity of that can be brought up, so it may be something that, like China today, everybody who's walking around is is wearing one of those. We'll have a lot of unusual measures until we get the world

vaccinated. You know, seven billion people, that's a tall order, but it is it is where we need to get to, despite a lot of things in between now and then to minimize the damage. You predicted this pandemic almost to a tea, and maybe it was because we were dealing with other things at the time, we didn't really pay that much attention. Is there anything else you want to warn us about now that we should be looking forward to? Is there anything else that keeps you up at night? Well, this is a naturally caused epidemic and as bad as it is, it looks if you have reasonable treatment to have a 1% fatality. There could be epidemics that are worse

than that, including ones that aren't naturally caused that are a form of bioterrorism. But I do, one thing I feel good about is, this is such a big change to the world that this time, it won't be like Ebola, which was just there in West Africa or Central Africa. This time, the tens of billions to have the diagnostic standing by, the vaccine manufacturing standing by, this time we will get ready for the next epidemic.

Well I hope your words are prophetic once again. Thank you so much for your time. Good luck in all of your work and stay healthy out there we need you. Hey thanks Trevor. Hopefully we'll be playing tennis again soon. You bet. Looking part to it. Thank you so much Bill Gates and by the way I texted you my Venmo account. When we come back we have an exclusive look at at at the first the first the first the first the first th the first th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. th. th. th. th. to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the. the. the. the. toeea. the toea. thea. toea. the theea. the the the. the the. the the and by the way, I texted you my Venmo account. When we come back, we have an exclusive look at the first movie that's being made about the coronavirus. And spoiler alerts, it might involve you. Don't go away. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television. Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives.

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