Bill Gates says 'we need a fire department for pandemics' as he worries we're unprepared for the next one

• Bill Gates wrote a New York Times op-ed Sunday warning about future pandemics.
• He supported the WHO's global health emergency corps, calling it a "fire department for pandemics."
• "We can't afford to get caught flat-footed again," Gates wrote.

Bill Gates called for a "fire department for pandemics" as he warned that the world could be unprepared for the next one, in a New York Times op-ed published Sunday.