Opinion

Bill Gates: Here’s how to make up for lost time on covid-19

Bill Gates is co-founder of Microsoft and a co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

There’s no question the United States missed the opportunity to get ahead of the novel coronavirus. But the window for making important decisions hasn’t closed. The choices we and our leaders make now will have an enormous impact on how soon case numbers start to go down, how long the economy remains shut down and how many Americans will have to bury a loved one because of covid-19.