“The transition is complex, but the new administration relies on real experts and is not prepared to attack those experts,” Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told CNN’s Jack Tapper in an interview aired Sunday. “State of the Union.”
In an interview with Tapper, Gates praised Biden’s upcoming administration for “making clear plans” to slow the spread of Covid-19, adding that “I think we will get this positive.”
“You know, the people and the elected Biden and his team are facing this problem,” he said.
Gates praised Biden for “doing his best to maintain,” said Dr. Gates, director of the National Institutes of Health. Francis Collins and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Drew. “
He added, “I don’t think the U.S. will be one of the worst performers, because (Biden) will come to the team’s office.”
Gates noted in his interview that when an epidemic occurs by giving it to federal health agencies and various technologies, U.S. “The best would be expected”, but “unfortunately … we didn’t get to the top of it. Many countries did,” adding future postmortems to the crisis would “guide us.”
During an interview with Tapper, Gates confirmed that he had talked to Biden about the epidemic.
The cost of paying a trillion dollars a year to avoid a disaster, you know – I think the guidelines are clear, and I talked to the president-elect about it. “Communicate to make sure we don’t blow it up again,” Gates said.
Gates told Tapper that the distribution “should be based on medical necessity, not property at all.”
“After all, this epidemic has been so horrific that it exacerbates inequalities.”
Gates also said that he was “very happy with all these vaccines” and that he would explicitly vaccinate when it was his turn to be vaccinated. Because I think not transitioning is good for everyone. “
Dewan Cole and Claire Duffy of CNN contributed to this report.
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