He really likes piping in on stuff he is not an expert on, doesn't he?Bill Gates warns 'we've NOT seen the worst of Covid': Microsoft billionaire says there is 'way above five percent' risk of pandemic generating more transmissive and 'even more fatal' Coronavirus variant
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has warned there is a 'way above five percent' risk the world has not yet seen the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not the first time he has made such a prediction. In December 2021, he warned his millions of Twitter followers to brace themselves for the worst part of the pandemic having previously cautioned in 2015 that the world was not ready for the next pandemic. Gates also advised governments across 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 the Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization initiative and said it should be managed by the WHO - the only body he claimed was capable to build and manage the 'top-notch' team of experts at a cost of around $1billion per year. 'The current WHO funding is not at all serious about pandemics,' Gates said, adding that 'less than 10 full-time people' were working on outbreak preparedness and 'even those people are distracted with many other activities'.
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He really likes piping in on stuff he is not an expert on, doesn't he?
Another thing about Gates is that he pledged, along with his then-wife Melinda, to 'give away' 95% of his wealth in his lifetime, in 2010. Now, 12 years later, after a divorce, and at age 66, Gates is still ranked as the fourth richest man in the world, and his net worth appears to have more than trebled in that time. It seems then either that he was not sincere when he made his pledge, he has since reneged on the promise, or he is terrible at giving away his wealth.He really likes piping in on stuff he is not an expert on, doesn't he?
I've not done one rapid test the whole pandemic.
They're so insulated and well as controlled. Surprising they would be hit so hard.North Korea's Explosive Covid Outbreak: 820,620 Cases In 3 Days
North Korea on Sunday reported 15 additional deaths from "fever" after the country recently announced its first-ever cases of Covid-19 and ordered nationwide lockdowns.
State media KCNA said a total of 42 people had died, with 820,620 cases and at least 324,550 under medical treatment. Leader Kim Jong Un has said the outbreak has caused "great upheaval" in North Korea.
KCNA reported that "all provinces, cities and counties of the country have been totally locked down and working units, production units and residential units closed from each other."
Despite activating its "maximum emergency quarantine system" to slow the spread of disease through its unvaccinated population, North Korea is now reporting large numbers of new cases daily.
North Korea confirmed Thursday that the highly contagious Omicron variant had been detected in the capital Pyongyang, with Kim ordering nationwide lockdowns. It was the government's first official admission of Covid cases and marked the failure of a two-year coronavirus blockade maintained since the start of the pandemic.
"The spread of malignant disease comes to be a great upheaval in our country since the founding of the DPRK," Kim said Saturday, referring to North Korea by its official name.
North Korea has a crumbling health system -- one of the worst in the world -- and no Covid vaccines, antiviral treatment drugs or mass testing capacity. It has previously turned down offers of Covid vaccines from China and the World Health Organization's Covax scheme, but both Beijing and Seoul have issued fresh offers of aid and vaccines.
The KCNA report did not specify whether the new cases and deaths had tested positive for Covid-19, but experts say the country will be struggling to test and diagnose on this scale.
The United States and South Korea have warned that Kim is preparing to conduct another nuclear test -- which would be the regime's seventh -- and that it could come any day. Analysts have warned Kim could speed up his nuclear test plans in a bid to distract North Korea's population from a disastrous Covid-19 outbreak.
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They have been even more isolated since the start of the pandemic. They may have had a rather immunologically naive population. If the newer omicron strain breached their quarantine, then it could spread rapidly.They're so insulated and well as controlled. Surprising they would be hit so hard.