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By The Defender Staff, Children’s Health Defense, 05/02/22
Bill Gates Warns a Deadlier Coronavirus Pandemic Will Come, Stresses Vaccine Urgency
Billionaire Bill Gates has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over and the world might still bear witness to a variant that can be “even more transmissive and fatal.” The tech mogul who founded Microsoft believes that greater investment is required to keep another pandemic at an arm’s length.
Not wanting to be a “voice of doom and gloom”, the billionaire philanthropist told the Financial Times that the risk of a deadlier variant surfacing is “way above 5 %.” Gates had made a similar prediction in 2015 when he cautioned the world that we are not ready for the next pandemic, which in the next five years was observed in every sense as an inescapable phenomenon. …