On the Daily Show with Trevor Noah on April 2, 2020, Bill Gates said:
Well, the main tools we have right now are the behavioral change, the social distancing, which often means staying at home most of the time and the testing capacity to identify who in particular needs to get isolated and then testing their contacts to make sure that we can catch it so early that a lot of people who get sick don’t infect anyone else. So our foundation is engaged in projecting what’s going to go on the modeling. Our partner IHME is telling each state what they should think about in terms of ventilators and capacity. Further on out, the work we’re doing now to find a therapeutic, a drug to reduce the disease, to cut the deaths down, we’re hopeful that even in six months, some of those will have been approved, but the ultimate solution, the only thing that really lets us go back completely to normal, and feel good about sitting in a stadium with lots of other people, is to create a vaccine and not just take care of our country but take that vaccine out to the global population and so that we have vast immunity and this thing, no matter what, isn’t going to spread in large numbers.