“We always have to be serious about public health in a global sense and surveillance for "the next one", because we don't know where it will emerge.”

—  Bill Gates

Source: As quoted in "Coronavirus: Bill Gates describes what we did wrong, and how to do better" by Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News (21 October 2020)

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