1918 Pandemic Book Bill Gates. My dad’s mom, lillian gates, was lucky to have survived the 1918 influenza pandemic. The 1918 influenza outbreak is the closest comparison to what we’re living through right now.
21 and june 4 of 1918, dr. This book about the 1918 spanish flu pandemic is “one of several books that made it clear to me that the world needed to do a better job of preparing for novel pathogens,” gates writes. The 1918 influenza outbreak is the closest comparison to what we’re living through right now.
Less than 30 years later, the boston area was one of the first places in the u.s.
Gates reported an experiment in which soldiers were given three doses of a bacterial meningitis vaccine. What the book is all about: Given the current circumstances, gates feels that the 1918 influenza pandemic comes as close as we can get for historical comparison. Gates reported an experiment in which soldiers were given three doses of a bacterial meningitis vaccine.