"If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war... We are not ready for the next epidemic."

Who issued that warning in 2015?

Bill Gates warned Trump about the risk of a pandemic - and lobbied him to fix virus and vaccine prep.

Bill Gates says Trump asked him to be a "science adviser," something he rejected in favor of simply offering independent advice on health and science policy, privately and publicly.

Gates continues to push pandemic prep and fact check Trump, recently stressing that "bringing the economy back .. is more of a reversible thing than *bringing people back to life.*"

So you have a very rich person reminding everyone of an old truth -- Your life is worth more than all the money in the world.

The problem with Ebola wasn't a bad system, it was *no system at all.*

No group of epidemiologists ready to go.. when we will need hundreds of thousands in a big outbreak..Ebola didn't get into a lot of urban areas- and that was just luck. Next time we might not be so lucky

-BG

"But we can be ready for the next epidemic," @BillGates
argued, even taking a controversial trip to Trump Tower during the transition to press health policy.

(from our new report )