In an exclusive interview with STAT, Bill Gates talks about his fear of a global pandemic.

Bill Gates got President Trump fired up about a universal flu vaccine — and also (maybe) got a job offer

Bill Gates was talking to President Trump in the Oval Office last month when the conversation turned to the notion of a universal flu vaccine — probably, as Gates recalled in an interview, “the longest conversation about universal flu vaccine that the president’s ever had.”

“You should associate yourself with American innovation. Wouldn’t you love to have the universal flu vaccine be something that really got kicked off and energized by you?” Gates recalled asking Trump.