{"id":101523,"date":"2020-01-28T14:04:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/bill-gates-in-2018-the-world-needs-to-prepare-for-pandemics-just-like-war"},"modified":"2020-01-28T14:04:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:04:49","slug":"bill-gates-in-2018-the-world-needs-to-prepare-for-pandemics-just-like-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/bill-gates-in-2018-the-world-needs-to-prepare-for-pandemics-just-like-war","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates in 2018: The world needs to prepare for pandemics just like war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-in-2018-the-world-needs-to-prepare-for-pandemics-just-like-war2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and health officials continue to grapple with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/01\/27\/cdc-is-monitoring-110-possible-coronavirus-cases-across-26-states-in-us.html\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a> that has killed at least 81 people in China and sickened 2,800 worldwide. And back in 2018, Billionaire Bill Gates gave a warning that the world wasn\u2019t prepared for pandemics, which should \u201cconcern us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an <a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheNewEnglandJournalofMedicine%2Fvideos%2F10155849069743462%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cmediasupport%40nejm.org%7C8f7b409bf5fa48e2c15308d7a34ea0e2%7C458a53272e354039ab37680f1f49c047%7C0%7C0%7C637157430413857113&amp;sdata=hDFTeQ8nLCc53fW8wQb%2Fm46zzqzcABctiFWCzYLbdCk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">event hosted<\/a> by Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on April 27, 2018, Gates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1806283\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> he believed \u201cthe world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis preparation includes staging simulations, war games and preparedness exercises so that we can better understand how diseases will spread and how to deal with responses such as quarantine and communications to minimize panic,\u201d Gates said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and health officials continue to grapple with the coronavirus outbreak that has killed at least 81 people in China and sickened 2,800 worldwide. And back in 2018, Billionaire Bill Gates gave a warning that the world wasn\u2019t prepared for pandemics, which should \u201cconcern us all.\u201d Speaking at an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}