Governments businesses and individuals around the world are thinking about what happens after
the COVID-19 pandemic. Can we hope to not only ward off another COVID-like disaster but also
eliminate all respiratory diseases including the flu? Bill Gates one of our greatest and most
effective thinkers and activists believes the answer is yes. The author of the #1 New York
Times best seller How to Avoid a Climate Disaster lays out clearly and convincingly what the
world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off another
catastrophe like it. Relying on the shared knowledge of the world’s foremost experts and on his
own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation Gates first helps us
understand the science of infectious diseases. Then he shows us how the nations of the world
working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector how we can prevent a new
pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy. Here is a clarion
call—strong comprehensive and of the gravest importance.
