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Bill Gates on the vaccine timeline

A 24-minute conversation on the vaccine timeline and the still-unknown aspects of COVID-19, how the US government and private sector were responding, which resources Gates uses to learn about diseases, and his claim that the world would be ready for the next pandemic within five years.

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2019
Squawk Box from Omaha with Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger
Gates joined Buffett and Munger for CNBC’s traditional post-meeting Squawk Box, discussing Berkshire’s Amazon stake, Boeing, the trade war with China, Bitcoin and philanthropy; it is one of the few recordings of Gates, Buffett and Munger together.
2019
Bill Gates looks to the future
A 45-minute audio conversation in which Anderson asks Gates how he chooses problems, why he is optimistic about global health, and what worries him about AI and climate; it previews themes of the 2019 Netflix series.
2019
Economic Club of Washington conversation
Rubenstein’s hour with Gates before the Washington business establishment: why climate change must be addressed now rather than later, technological innovation, global health and philanthropy, plus the biographical questions Rubenstein favors.
2019
Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
Guggenheim’s three episodes of 51–56 minutes (sanitation and the Omni Processor; polio eradication in Nigeria; TerraPower and climate) interleave original interviews with Gates, Melinda Gates, his sisters Kristi and Libby, Warren Buffett, Nathan Myhrvold, Vaclav Smil and Nicholas Kristof with archival footage, including the 1998–2001 antitrust trial and the 1972 death of his friend Kent Evans.
2020
How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic
In the pandemic’s second week in the US, Gates told Anderson the country had to shut down for six to ten weeks, predicted vaccines within 18 months, and warned that reopening too early would restart the outbreak; the session became the most-watched explanation of pandemic strategy that month.
2020
How the pandemic will shape the near future
Three months after the first TED Connects session, Gates updated Anderson on therapeutics, the vaccine race and the rise of conspiracy theories about himself, which he called ‘the strange thing’ of the pandemic.
2020
Bill Gates on the vaccine timeline
A 24-minute conversation on the vaccine timeline and the still-unknown aspects of COVID-19, how the US government and private sector were responding, which resources Gates uses to learn about diseases, and his claim that the world would be ready for the next pandemic within five years.
2020
DealBook Online Summit: COVID-19 vaccines
A 45-minute New York Times virtual panel, days after Pfizer and Moderna reported their first efficacy results, with Gates, Pfizer’s Albert Bourla and Vaccine Confidence Project director Heidi Larson on the results, how doses would be distributed and whether the public would take them.
2020
Singapore FinTech Festival address
Gates discussed digital payments for the poor, the foundation’s Mojaloop work and vaccine distribution timelines in a virtual session for Singapore’s fintech conference.
2021
Bill Gates: How the world can avoid a climate disaster
Cooper’s 60 Minutes segment launched Gates’s climate book two days before publication: Gates argued climate is harder than the pandemic and solvable only with breakthroughs in steel, cement and next-generation nuclear power (TerraPower), and conceded ‘I probably have one of the highest greenhouse gas footprints of anyone on the planet’, which he offsets.
2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
A remote late-night stop on the ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’ tour, with Colbert asking about the microchip conspiracy theories as well as the book.
2021
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (2021)
Gates and Noah discussed the climate book, green premiums and whether rich countries will pay to help poorer ones adapt.
2021
AC360: The Bill Gates Interview
A prime-time CNN special in which Cooper talks to Gates about the state of the coronavirus a year in, the vaccine rollout under the new Biden administration, and the climate book published that week.