How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Gates makes a real contribution here: the GERM team proposal is concrete, costed, and specific in a way that most pandemic policy writing is not, and his decade-plus of global health funding gives him genuine standing to make the case. The left-leaning critiques about structural inequality are fair and worth holding in mind, and the COVID-era framing feels time-stamped now, but as an accessible, actionable argument for pandemic preparedness infrastructure this is worthwhile reading.