Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We're not ready
Bill Gates: La prossima epidemia? Non siamo pronti
A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation. Full bio
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di più era la guerra nucleare.
was a nuclear war.
un barile come questo in cantina,
down in our basement,
sarebbe arrivato,
hunker down, and eat out of that barrel.
e mangiare dal barile.
of global catastrophe
di catastrofe globale
persone, nei prossimi decenni,
in the next few decades,
un virus altamente contagioso
a highly infectious virus
in nuclear deterrents.
enormi in deterrenti nucleari.
in a system to stop an epidemic.
sistema che possa fermare un'epidemia.
per la prossima epidemia.
in the newspaper,
letto tutti sui giornali,
through the case analysis tools
gli strumenti di analisi dei casi
l'eradicazione della polio.
that didn't work well enough,
il sistema non funzionava.
didn't have a system at all.
totale di un sistema.
elementi chiave abbastanza ovvi.
key missing pieces.
ready to go, who would have gone,
pronti a partire, che sarebbero andati,
seen how far it had spread.
di malattia e il livello di diffusione.
sono arrivati tramite i giornali.
before they were put online
con molto ritardo
pronto a partire.
di preparare la gente.
did a great job orchestrating volunteers.
un lavoro straordinario
than we should have been
più lenti del necessario
into these countries.
di operatori in quei paesi.
to have hundreds of thousands of workers.
centinaia di migliaia di operatori.
a valutare le terapie.
to look at treatment approaches.
what tools should be used.
strumenti dovessero essere utilizzati.
taken the blood of survivors,
il sangue dei sopravvissuti,
back in people to protect them.
nelle persone per proteggerle.
are really a global failure.
but not to do these things I talked about.
per monitorare le epidemie,
carini, pronti a partire,
epidemiologists ready to go,
but that's just pure Hollywood.
situazione - ma è solo Hollywood.
permettere alla prossima epidemia
could allow the next epidemic
more devastating than Ebola
più devastante dell' Ebola.
of Ebola over this year.
dell' Ebola di quest'anno.
West African countries.
dell'Africa Occidentale.
it didn't spread more.
non si è diffuso di più.
of heroic work by the health workers.
sanitari sono stati eroici:
prevented more infections.
e hanno prevenuto altre infezioni.
diventa contagioso,
male da essere costretta a letto.
that they're bedridden.
into many urban areas.
nelle aree urbane.
stata solo fortuna.
more urban areas,
in molte più aree urbane,
would have been much larger.
sarebbe stato molto più alto.
non essere così fortunati.
feel well enough while they're infectious
ci si sente abbastanza bene
or they go to a market.
o andare al mercato.
un'epidemia naturale come l'Ebola,
a natural epidemic like Ebola,
make things a thousand times worse.
la situazione mille volte peggiore.
of a virus spread through the air,
che si diffonde per via aerea,
very, very quickly.
molto rapidamente.
died from that epidemic.
sono morte in quell'epidemia.
a really good response system.
un buon sistema di reazione.
and technology that we talk about here.
e tecnologia di cui parliamo qui.
and get information out to them.
e trasmetterle.
where people are and where they're moving.
in cui si vede
the turnaround time to look at a pathogen
i tempi di ricerca di un patogeno
that fit for that pathogen.
e vaccini adatti a quel patogeno.
into an overall global health system.
in un sistema sanitario globale.
on how to get prepared
su come prepararsi
waiting to go.
pronti a partire.
per aumentare i numeri.
us up to large numbers.
that can deploy very rapidly.
da schierare rapidamente.
controllare: la gente è preparata?
to check, are people well trained?
about fuel and logistics
pronti a partire.
we need to deal with an epidemic.
servono ad affrontare un'epidemia.
in poor countries.
efficienti nei paesi poveri,
partorire in sicurezza,
can give birth safely,
the outbreak very early on.
l'epidemia con molto anticipo.
the training and background
con le competenze giuste.
medical people with the military.
i militari a questi medici,
nel muoversi velocemente,
to move fast, do logistics
messa in sicurezza delle aree.
so that we see where the holes are.
per vedere dove sono le lacune.
was done in the United States
è stata fatta negli Stati Uniti
and it didn't go so well.
germi: 1, persone: 0.
in areas of vaccines and diagnostics.
nell'area dei vaccini e della diagnostica.
like the Adeno-associated virus,
come i virus adeno-associati,
molto velocemente.
for what this would cost,
di quanto potrebbe costare,
compared to the potential harm.
rispetto al potenziale danno.
if we have a worldwide flu epidemic,
un'epidemia di influenza mondiale
by over three trillion dollars
di più di 3 trilioni di dollari
and millions of deaths.
offer significant benefits
benefici significativi,
preparazione alle epidemie.
in termini di salute globale
global health equity
as well as more safe.
più giusto e più sicuro.
assolutamente una priorità.
be a priority.
prendere dal panico.
or go down into the basement.
o scendere in cantina.
because time is not on our side.
perché il tempo non è dalla nostra parte.
that can come out of the Ebola epidemic,
dell'epidemia di Ebola,
warning, a wake-up call, to get ready.
da campanello d'allarme per prepararci.
for the next epidemic.
per la prossima epidemia.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bill Gates - PhilanthropistA passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation.
Why you should listen
Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of Microsoft. A geek icon, tech visionary and business trailblazer, Gates' leadership -- fueled by his long-held dream that millions might realize their potential through great software -- made Microsoft a personal computing powerhouse and a trendsetter in the Internet dawn. Whether you're a suit, chef, quant, artist, media maven, nurse or gamer, you've probably used a Microsoft product today.
In summer of 2008, Gates left his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. Holding that all lives have equal value (no matter where they're being lived), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now donated staggering sums to HIV/AIDS programs, libraries, agriculture research and disaster relief -- and offered vital guidance and creative funding to programs in global health and education. Gates believes his tech-centric strategy for giving will prove the killer app of planet Earth's next big upgrade.
Read a collection of Bill and Melinda Gates' annual letters, where they take stock of the Gates Foundation and the world. And follow his ongoing thinking on his personal website, The Gates Notes. His new paper, "The Next Epidemic," is published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
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