Bill Gates warns that “we haven’t seen the worst of Covid”: Microsoft billionaire says “well over five percent” risk that pandemic could generate more transmitting and “even more fatal” version of coronavirus
- Bill Gates warned that a more “transmitting and fatal” version could be generated
- He said that would mean that the world has not yet seen the worst of the pandemic
- Earlier, he warned that the worst of the pandemic would hit in December 2021
- The WHO director general warned people this week that they were tired of the virus
By Stephen Win-Davis for Mailonline
Posted: 10:27, 1 May 2022 | Updated: 11:03, 1 May 2022
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has warned that there is “well over five percent” risk that the world has not yet seen the worst of the Covid pandemic.
The tech mogul and philanthropist said he did not want to sound “doomed and gloomy”, but warned that there was a risk of generating an “even more treacherous and even more fatal” version.
He said the risk of this happening was “well over five percent” and would mean that the world has not yet seen the worst of the pandemic.
This is not the first time he has made such a prediction. In December 2021, he warned his millions of Twitter followers to prepare for the worst part of the pandemic, having previously warned in 2015 that the world was not ready for the next pandemic.
Gates told the FT: “We are still at risk of this pandemic generating an option that will be even more transmitting and even more fatal.
“It’s unlikely, I don’t want to be a voice of doom and gloom, but the risk of this pandemic is well over 5 percent, we haven’t even seen the worst of it.”
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has warned that there is a “well over five percent” risk that the world has not yet seen the worst of the Covid pandemic.
Covid-19 has killed about 6.2 million people worldwide since March 2020, but the number of deaths and deaths has been declining in recent weeks.
Gates’ warning comes after Dr. Tedros Adanom Gebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned this week that people still need to get tired of the virus and that reducing overall testing and monitoring of Covid in many countries have left the world at risk of virus recurrence.
Gates, who is releasing his new book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic on Tuesday, has advised governments around the world to invest in a team of epidemiologists and computer modelers to help identify global health threats in the future.
He called his plan an initiative for a global response and mobilization of epidemics, and said it should be run by the WHO, the only body he says is capable of building and managing a “first-class” team of experts at a cost of about $ 1 billion. dollars per year.
He said the current WHO funding model was “not serious about pandemics at all” and that fewer than ten people had worked full time on epidemic preparedness, while being distracted by other activities.
Gates’ comments came at the end of the week, when Covid’s daily hospitalizations in the UK hit a two-month low and deaths fell 40 percent in one week.
Data from the government dashboard – which is becoming increasingly unreliable now that free testing has been phased out – showed that there were 1,186 virus outbreaks in the UK on April 23.
It marked a decline of nearly 18% over the previous week and a decline of 36% in two weeks. This was the lowest number since February 27, when there were 1101 admissions.
The United Kingdom reported a drop in Covid cases just weeks after NHS leaders called for face masks and open-air blending to return to reduce Covid rates (image)
Selected NHS data show that more than half of Covid’s patients in hospitals are not predominantly infected with the virus, which is another promising sign.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 2.4 million people in England were infected with the virus every day last week, the equivalent of one in 25 people, down a quarter from the previous week.
The huge surveillance survey, based on swabs of 120,000 people and considered the best way to measure the outbreak in the nation, registered its lowest figure since the week of February 26th.
The dropout comes just weeks after NHS leaders called for face masks and outdoor blending to return to reduce Covid rates and reduce pressure on the health service.
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