Thread by @PaulNuki

1/6 Interesting to talk to @BillGates for the launch of the #Goalkeepers report on the UN's #SDGs. His key message: development now in reverse and we need to unite to build up again. Also good on: Sweden, WHO, Vaccines, and the prospects for winter telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

2/6 On the coming months: “I'm pessimistic about what the fall in the northern hemisphere is likely to look like. If we don't have interventions, the death rate in a number of countries including the US will go back up to the levels that we had in the spring."

3/6 On a vaccine: “By next summer, we'll be getting vaccines out to all the countries of the world... I'm optimistic that next year will be the year that we bring the numbers down very, very dramatically, and that this thing will be over by sometime in 2022.”

4/6 On the "irony" of America leaving the WHO: "Is there some country that is in the hallways and influencing what goes on in the WHO?’ The answer is, ‘absolutely, yes’. That country is the United States of America. “

5/6 On the real impact of the pandemic: “We’ve been set back about 25 years. I would expect substantially more deaths from the indirect effects than from the direct effects. All countries must work together to end the pandemic and begin rebuilding economies".

6/6 Big read here on the report itself: How the pandemic set global development back '25 years in just 25 weeks'

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/… #COVID19