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Delivers TED Talk 'The Next Outbreak? We're Not Ready' Warning of Pandemic Risk
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Gates delivered a widely watched TED Talk warning that the world's greatest risk of mass casualties in the coming decades was not a nuclear war but a highly infectious virus for which humanity was unprepared. He called for robust investment in epidemic readiness — health worker training, reserve medical corps, and accelerated vaccine research platforms. The talk has accumulated more than 40 million views and was cited extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic as having directly predicted the crisis years in advance.
Source: https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready
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