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		</div><p>Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has said the global Covid-19 pandemic is his <em>“worst nightmare”</em>, while promising to assist the process of manufacturing vaccines.</p>
<p>In an interview with The Times, the billionaire said that he had been concerned about the impact of a vial pandemic for years.</p>
<p>Mr Gates, formerly the richest man in the world, has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">previously warned</span></a> about the world’s need to prepare for global health crises.</p>
<p><em>“My worst nightmare has come true,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>In a Ted Talk in 2015, Mr Gates reflected on the 2014 Ebola outbreak and said global societies were not ready for a future epidemic, urging countries to prepare supplies and expertise.</p>
<p>He said in the talk: <em>“In the movies it’s quite different. There’s a group of handsome epidemiologists ready to go, they move in, they save the day, but that’s just pure Hollywood.”</em></p>
<p>In response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Mr Gates told The Times the global health charity in his name will arrange funding to build factories to produce vaccines.</p>
<p>These factories will be ready to manufacture billions of different vaccines prior to their approval in order to speed up the process.</p>
<p>He said: <em>“They are going to put it in humans fairly soon.</em></p>
<p><em>“If their antibody results are one of the ones that are promising then we and others in a consortium will help make sure that massive manufacturing gets done.”</em></p>
<p>The American billionaire has dedicated much of his time in recent years to public health through the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.</p>
<p>The Foundation works towards equal access to healthcare and education across the world, typically placing more than half of its resources into eradicating diseases such as polio and malaria.</p>
<p>In March, Mr Gates announced he would be stepping back from the board of Microsoft to focus on philanthropy.</p>
<p>Likening the Covid-19 pandemic to a world war <em>“except we’re all on the same side”</em>, Mr Gates said the increase of nationalism in previous years was unhelpful.</p>
<p>He added: <em>“You go to war with the leaders you have. In retrospect, you get to judge how well that went.</em></p>
<p>“Very few people get an A in terms of what they’ve done in this situation.”</p>
<p>The 64-year-old said that while lockdown measures have had negative effects on economies around the world, failing to take measures could have led to <em>“the worst of both worlds”</em>.</p>
<p>He said: <em>“People act like if we just went for herd immunity and let it rip the economy would have been fine but that counterfactual does not exist.</em></p>
<p><em>“The economy in these rich countries that are experiencing the epidemic was going to be really terrible.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Gates went on to say that Covid-19 was a significant blow in the fight for greater equity worldwide as the pandemic would likely disproportionately affect people in developing countries and disadvantaged people in developed countries.</p>
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