Bill Gates says more testing is needed to avoid a second wave of coronavirus: “What we don’t know is, if we go slightly back to normal, which activities create the risk of a rebound?”
The Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.82% co-founder, whose namesake foundation has long funded the global fight against infectious diseases, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that the U.S. needs to be smart about reopening as the coronavirus pandemic wanes, and that to make it work, the country needs to sharply ramp up its testing capacity.
“ “If they open up, they can go back into exponential [coronavirus infection] growth and compete with New York on that basis.” ”
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