Bill Gates says other nations had better coronavirus responses than US (cnn.com)
(CNN)While the United States has historically led the way when it comes to dealing with diseases such as smallpox, polio and HIV, other countries were faster with a coronavirus response, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Thursday.
A number of countries -- which he did not name -- got going a lot more quickly than the United States, said Gates, whose Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds multiple health care initiatives. Countries with previous experience fighting SARS or MERS were the quickest and set up strong models, Gates said in a Time 100 talk.
"If you score the US, our domestic response has been weak. It can improve," he said. "Our (research and development) response -- funding vaccines and therapeutics -- has been the best in the world."
For instance, ramping up testing has been slow, Gates said.
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