Bill Gates is confident that we can prevent the next pandemic – if we prepare ourselves properly. A conversation about inequality, vaccine skepticism and its role as a scapegoat.
Interview:
Christina Berndt and Stefan Kornelius
Anyone who has a video date with Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is of course using the Teams platform, there is no doubt about that. According to the computer identification, Gates is sitting in the “fishbowl”, i.e. the goldfish bowl, which possibly owes its name to the camera’s fisheye lens. In any case, the room is white and curved as the founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation answers the questions in his standard uniform of blue sweater over shirt.