https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/15/send-us-your-questions-for-bill-gates

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In a 2015 Ted talk, Bill Gates claimed: “If anything kills over 10 million people over the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.” With deaths from Covid-19 surpassing 6 million, it turns out the grisly prediction from the Silicon Valley billionaire and philanthropist might be correct. His and other experts’ warnings were widely ignored – the US, for instance, slashed funding from the relevant response agencies. Gates feels that, despite the world experiencing a pandemic, lessons still won’t be learned, and in May he is publishing a manifesto, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.