Bill Gates made a Monday appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show,wherehe spoke about the global impact of the novel coronavirus and his 2015 Ted Talk prediction that a health crisis would one day destabilize the United States. "Well, the goal of the 2015 talk and the detailed article in the New England Journal of Medicine was so that the government would do the work to be ready for the next epidemic," Gates told DeGeneres, who has been filming her talk show remotely from her home in Los Angeles.