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Journalism, Medicine, Technology

Bill Gates on the pandemic

IN 2015, the American technologist and philanthropist Bill Gates warned that humanity wasn’t ready for a pandemic. Seven years on, as the world emerges (hopefully) from a pandemic for which it wasn’t ready, he thinks we have it within our power to make sure this one was the last. There will be more disease outbreaks, but we now possess the tools and the knowledge to prevent them from becoming global catastrophes…

This article first appeared in the New Statesman on 4 May 2022. To continue reading, click here:

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2022/05/bill-gates-on-the-pandemic-a-misplaced-faith-in-innovation

Journalism, Medicine

‘We took a huge risk’: the Indian firm making more Covid jabs than anyone

ADAR Poonawalla, 40, is the chief executive of the Serum Institute of India (SII), the Pune-based, family-owned vaccine manufacturer that is producing more Covid-19 vaccines by dose than any other in the world. For now it’s the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rolling off its production lines, but SII has signed contracts with three other developers – Novavax, Codagenix and SpyBiotech – all of which have candidates in the works…

This article first appeared in The Guardian on 14 February 2021. To continue reading, click here.