BillGates

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Bill Gates Books

How To Prevent the Next Pandemic

• copyright 2022, written earlier by large team

• p006 Bill Foege CDC 977-993

• p039 Messenger RNA Vaccine, 6 billion doses in 2021

• p046 need well funded global organization focused on pandemic prevention

• p059 CHAMPS Child Health And Mortality Protection Surveillance global network

• p072 Michael Famulare estimated 570 (80 to 1500 90% confidence) infected when first two patients identified

• p074 2020 March 30 NYT Coronavirus May Have Spread in U.S. for Weeks, Gene Sequencing Suggest

• p096 flu cases dropped 99% in 2020-21 compared to 2019-2020
• p100 contact tracing requires widespread testing, fast results, and contacting people quickly
• p102 droplets larger than 5μm, aerosols smaller. Heavier droplets carry more virus, but fall to ground within feet
• p103 COVID viruses electrically charged, attract lung substances that slow aerosol drying
• p104 Social distancing works, nothing magical about six feet

• p105 Masks 1910 Wu Lien-teh Maylayan physician fighting pneumonic plague in Manchuria

• p108 N mask straps around back of head, KN mask straps around ears (unless ears flap forward like mine)

• p113 hydroxychloroquine blocked COVID in monkeys, buy humans have different pathway

• p114 cytokine storm, blood vessels leak fluid into organs and lungs, the overreaction causes low blood pressure, organ failure, and death

• p115 convalescent plasma and remdesivir not verty effectove

• p116 monoclonal antibodies mAbs

• p116 Sotrovimab isolated from SARS and modified (not effective ahttps://www.nih.gov/gainst Omicron)

• p117 Merck molnupiravir

• p117 Paxlovid Pfizer

• p139 vaccines, from disease identification to Vaccines to 50% global vaccination

• p146 vaccine factory standards, temperature, airflow, wall corner curvature

• p149 COVAX

• p157 We were good, but we were also lucky (SARS and MERS experience helped)

• p160 Stephaun Wallace at Fred Hutch died 2023 age 45

• p165 "cookbook by David Chang analogy

• p169 WHO vaccine approval

• p196 Pentagon budget $700B/year, NIH $43B/year

• p196 Bill Foege CDC successor James Mason 1983-89) closed down CDC bioterrorism program

• p203 5 million child deaths per year, main focus of Gates Foundation

• p222 Microneedle patches

• p223 Gates (and I) believe COVID was animal spillover, not lab leak
• p225 Inattention: public health needs modernization, one state health department ran 20 year old software

• p229 Crimson Contagion outbreak simulation

• p246 telehealth saves time

Source Code

My Beginnings

• 2025 West Slope Lib B GATES BILL
• 315 numbered pages, 16 pages of photos between p148 and p149, no citations or index
• born October 29, 1955

• p073 social worker/therapist Charles O. Cressey 1921/3-2012/25

• p075 Cressey: "You're a lucky kid"
• p081 Saturday sessions ended 2.5 years later
• p138 DECtape (260 ft, 0.75 inch, 4 inch spool)

• p13 C-Cubed 1968-1970

• p141 Kent Evans

• p142 ISI didn't pay for PAYROL, Bill's lawyer father calls ISI, listens, says "I hear you", lawyer-ese for "I don't accept what you say"

• p143 sold DEC tapes to OMSI and a "high tech industrial electronics company in the Portland area".
• p148 Math teacher Bob Haig dies in Cessna 150 engine failure, power line collision

• photo 14: Gates and Allen with https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajmexico/3281139507/ 1975 Micro-Soft 8080 Basic

• p152 Kent dies May 28, 1972 class 5 climb on [ [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shuksan | Mount Shuksan ]]

• p152 ... Lakeside art teacher Robert Fulghum

• p160 19yo Paul Allen quietly cogitated until right answer

• p163 1972 Gates and Allen paid $360 for Intel 8008 IC

• p166 Harvard application: "Right now I am most interested in business or law."

• p167 Black Comedy play by Peter Shaffer

• p170 Traf-O-Data 1972

• p170 BPA office in Vancouver WA
• p172 PDP-10, "five nines" == downtime 5.26 minutes per year

• p173 eating Tang powder out of the jar

• p174 John Norton TRW programmer

  • forgot a "-" in the Mariner 1 radar code

• p175 1973 senior, accepted by Yale and Princeton, picks Harvard

• p183 Aiken Computation Lab PDP-10

• p185 Tom Cheatham in charge of PDP-10

• p189 Harvard Math 55John Mather [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgrange_preparation_theorem | Malgrange-Mather? preparation theorem

• p192 Eric Roberts applied math grad student

• p192 Danny Cohen student of Ivan Sutherland

• p193 Ed Taft

• p195 Sam Znaimer Jim Jenkins Jim Sethna Andy Briaterman

• p272 Micro Soft: Gates President, Allen VP

• p272 Chuck Peddle

• p297 Ed Roberts pneumonia 2010

• p298 1977 trinity TRS-80 Apple II Commodore PET

  • chiclet keyboard (I interfaced a full-sized keyboard)
  • Command WAIT 6502,1 put MICROSOFT! in upper left of screen
  • Who knew? I used the seemingly unused bytes to fix the GPIB handshake on my PET. Otherwise, that is NOT a copyright notice, though (C)MSFT77 would be

• p299 December 1978 iconic Microsoft photo

• p303 How Not to Be Wrong 2014 Jordan Ellenberg

• p304 Feynman "The Meaning of It All"
• p304 Gates would probably be diagnosed on the autism spectrum if growing up today