Bill Gates Predicted a Dangerous Virus Five Years Ago
He concluded that humanity was not ready for an epidemic, which proved to be very accurate.
In 2015, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, speaking at a TED talk, predicted that the world would face a virus, and that it would be the one to cause a global catastrophe, rather than a nuclear explosion.
He gave no approximate timelines, much less the origin of a possible virus, but he drew a conclusion that now looks very accurate — the global health system is not ready for an epidemic.
Bill Gates
2015If something kills more than 10 million people over the next few decades, it will most likely be an infectious virus rather than war. Not missiles, but microbes.
Gates believed that humanity's response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014 was too slow and that it was simply lucky the virus did not spread in cities.
“You can have a virus when people feel quite well, but at the same time they are already contagious when they board a plane and go to the market”.
Bill Gates donated $50 million to speed up the development of drugs against coronavirus.
Today, the 64-year-old Bill Gates has left the Microsoft board of directors and will continue to focus on charity and social projects.
At this point, 145,000 people have been infected with coronavirus around the world. Deaths — 5,436.
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