Bill and Melinda Gates warn of "immunity inequality"

Graphic: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates warn today in their foundation's annual letterabout "immunity inequality" — a deadly gap between wealthy people, with access to COVID vaccines, and everyone else, managing editor David Nather writes. Why it matters: As long as there are large swaths of the world that can't get vaccinated, it'll be impossible to get the pandemic under control. Melinda Gates writes: "Everything depends on whether the world comes together to ensure that the lifesaving science developed in 2020 saves as many lives as possible in 2021." Bill Gates calls for the creation of a "global alert system" to detect disease outbreaks as soon as they happen, as well as the use of "germ games" to help train first responders. 🎧 Hear Niala Boohoo of "Axios Today" interview Melinda Gates, including her take on why Amanda Gorman, 22, was so inspiring at the inauguration:  She's a poet, but there are probably another 10,000 of her who have ideas about how to fix the nation. ... We need to put young people forward. They see what's going on in society. Hear it here. Axios AM By Mike Allen