Sometimes seeing data presented in the right way can change your entire view of the world.
Bill Gates says that’s what happened to him 20 years ago, with global health:
“I was completely stunned by the burden of disease in poor countries, to see that diarrhea was killing literally millions of children, and that some of those causes of diarrhea, like rotavirus, were preventable," he said. "There was a vaccine available in rich countries, but ironically, not in poor countries."
