Bill Gates says the World Health Organization needs to launch a global surveillance team to quickly identify disease outbreaks before they become the next pandemic.
After more than two years of Covid-19, plenty of people are lowering their guards. But the pandemic isn't over yet — and,"We're still at risk of this pandemic generating a variant that would be even more transmissive and even more fatal," the billionaire Microsoft co-founder and public health advocateon Sunday.
New Covid cases, powered by the BA.2 subvariant of Covid's omicron strain, are currently growing across the U.S.: The country's seven-day average of daily new U.S. cases is up to 54,429 as of Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University data. That's a 9% increase over the week prior, with cases growing in 39 states over that time frame.that he's"not overly concerned right now" about BA.2.
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