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During a meeting at the Trump Tower with the president-elect a month ago who officially took office in January 2017, Bill Gates discussed the risks of infectious diseases and urged Trump to prioritize preparedness efforts in the country, advice that personally gave other presidential candidates in 2016 as well. And directed by Hillary Clinton, according to the newspaper.
The number of deaths from coronavirus in the United States on Monday exceeded the 80,000 mark, while the number of infections reached around 1.34 million, according to various statistics.
Gates’ warning to Trump was not new. During a previous speech in 2015, the Microsoft founder said viruses posed “the highest risk of a global catastrophe” compared to other threats.
“If something kills more than 10 million people in the coming decades, it is likely to be a highly contagious virus, not a war. It is not missiles, but microbes,” said Gates, adding that countries spent huge sums of money. to avoid nuclear war, but hardly spend anything on “systems to stop epidemics”.
In 2010, Bill Gates had warned of an impending epidemic worldwide, after the spread of the H1N1 virus in 2009.
According to the CNBC website, Bill Gates and his wife put a spare food supply in their home, years before the current Corona virus that appeared in China in December 2019, and paralyzed the world economy.
