Bill Gates warned that we may not have experienced the worst of the Covid pandemic-39 and that, in addition, a more deadly variant could emerge.
The billionaire philanthropist said he does not want to sound too “pessimistic”, but there is a risk that a variant “yet more transmissive and even more fatal”.
In addition, Gates predicted that the risk of a deadly variant of the virus spreading is “well above five percent”.
The founder of Microsoft told the Financial Times: “We still run the risk that this pandemic will generate a variant that would be even more transmissive and even more fatal.”
“It is not likely, I do not want to be a voice of pessimism, but it is well above the 5 percent risk that this pandemic, we haven’t even seen the worst.”
The tech tycoon gave a talk at 2015 stating that the world was “not ready for the next epidemic” and that viruses pose the greatest threat to humanity .
He also called for a team of experts, costing around a billion dollars, to be managed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to detect and prevent future pandemics.
He added: “The The amount of money involved is very small compared to the benefit and it will be a test: can global institutions take on new responsibilities in an excellent way, even in a period of time when between the United States and China are difficult? Is US-Russia extremely harsh?
Her warning of him comes as World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned the world must remain cautious about the virus amid a drop in testing generals. 2022
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