In 2019, there were 405,000 deaths from malaria worldwide (source:WHO). You have to be careful comparing a new, spreading pandemic to an established disease, but it is interesting that the two afflictions are polar opposites in who they affect the most, rich countries vs. poor.
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We shut down the world economy for one, while the other is just kind of a fact of life despite our knowing exactly how it spreads and how to fight it. Malaria was entirely eradicated in the US by 1940 thanks to a lot of hard work, and then we just kind of said "good enough"pic.twitter.com/cuCWGWztWh
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According to WHO, eradicating malaria would cost on the order of $34 billion, and prevent an additional 2 billion malaria cases and 4 million deaths by 2030. Yet we will spend trillions on covid-19.https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/23-08-2019-rising-to-the-challenge-of-malaria-eradication …
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Given that we're going to spend an unlimited amount on coronavirus, which affects the developed world, and that we'll have to mount a global health response, this is an incredible opportunity to go after other infectious diseases, at (relatively speaking) zero marginal cost.
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The funding requirements for eradicating tuberculosis (which kills 1.6 million people a year) is on the order of a few tens of billions of dollars. Again, basically free compared to what will be spent on covid-19. So let's do it!https://www.who.int/tb/strategy/end-tb/en/ …
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Yes. It was just like his strategy for boosting linux. The man has a style!
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