Recently, the businessman and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gateshe stated in an interview with the media ‘Financial Times‘ that there is a risk “well above 5%” that the worst of the pandemic for the covid-19 is to come.
As the billionaire explained, a new strain of coronavirus much more contagious and even fatal and that the world is not yet ready for it.
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“I do not want to be a voice of pessimism, but it is well above the 5% risk that of this pandemic, we have not even seen the worst,” warned.
”We still run the risk that this pandemic will generate a variant that would be even more transmissive and even more fatal”said the tycoon.
Given this, Gates called on governments around the world to invest a good part of their capital in epidemiological teams and technological modelers. to help identify health hazards in the future.
Previously, the businessman had already warned regarding these threats regarding the coronavirus.
In December 2021, he spoke on his official Twitter account assuring that he would cancel his plans and stay home thanks to ómicron, since the next peak of the pandemic would be yet to come.
”Just when it seemed like life would return to normal, we might be entering the worst part of the pandemic omicron will hit home for all of us. Close friends of mine now have it, and I’ve canceled most of my vacation plans”, reads the publication.
