Bill Gates: ‘We underestimated the value of masks’

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  • “The number of things that in retrospect, could have been done better on this pandemic is very, very large,” Bill Gates told journalists in a conference call.
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization now recommend that people wear masks as a way to slow and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
  • “It took a while to get that message out,” Gates said. “Some political leaders helped with that, some political leaders did not.”


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"Now, inconsistent mask rules in states and cities and the refusal by large numbers of people, particularly in the U.S., to wear them is contributing to the continued coronavirus spread, many medical professionals say.

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"President Donald Trump has largely avoided wearing a mask and has not required them at his campaign events. He first wore a face mask in public in July, while visiting a hospital, four months after the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, and has since called wearing them “patriotic.”

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has also belittled masks, and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson didn’t wear one publicly until July. Johnson and Bolsonaro both tested positive for the coronavirus.
 
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Gates acknowledged the level of resistance in some communities to mask wearing as well as to being vaccinated, noting that that resistance for some is linked to conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and any resulting vaccines.


“We need to get people to understand that things like wearing masks not only help yourself, but help other people,” Gates stressed. “We need to give people a clear sense of what’s going on with the vaccine and the safety reviews so that as we get approval, people understand what’s been done and we get a willingness to not only help themselves, but help other people by taking the vaccine.”
 
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"“Somehow the true messages aren’t as titillating or as exciting as the conspiracy-type messages,” he added. “But the attitude towards vaccines is important not only for this pandemic, but also for polio eradication and the dramatic progress we’ve made in reducing childhood death, particularly in areas like measles, diarrhea and pneumonia.”
 
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Ultimately, Gates is confident in the success of a vaccine, which he sees as likely to be approved as early as December or January. Trump has said a vaccine is possible before the Nov. 3 presidential election.


“The good news is that we have an extremely high chance of having a very effective vaccine,” he said. “And we will build out of this an ability to respond further to the next pandemic with testing, therapeutics and vaccines far better than we did this time.”
 

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