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Health &Perspectives:

COVID-19:

Bill Gates and

the Vaccine

conspiracy

theories Bill Gates speaks at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization

(Gavi) conference in London on 13 June.

ill Gates saw this coming: “I rate the emerged. like.”
Bchance of a widespread epidemic, in The charity’s humanitarian work in In Kenya, in 2014, all 27 members of
my lifetime, as well over 50 percent,” he Africa, where misinformation about the nation’s Conference of Catholic
told Ezra Klein, an American journalist, Gates is particularly present, and Bishops declared that a WHO/UNICEF
blogger, and political commentator, in financial support of the World Health campaign to administer neonatal tetanus
2015.“Something like the Spanish flu in Organization -- it is the agency’s second- vaccines to women of childbearing
the modern day - health systems are far largest donor -- have fed rumours of age was really “a disguised population
better, so you think, okay, that wouldn’t dark secrets and ploys for power. control programme.” According to the
be very bad. What we showed [when bishops, the vaccines were laced with
infectious disease researchers working Several widely shared posts point a hormone that would cause repeated
with the Gates Foundation modeled to photographs of Gates attending miscarriages and eventual sterility.
the scenario] was that the force of the a “coronavirus conference” in 2015. United Nations health officials rejected
infection, because of modern transport Conclusion? He predicted the pandemic. accusations.
... within days, it’s basically in all urban In reality, he was meeting with a research
centers of the entire globe.” institute that had filed for a patent to The world’s second-richest man has, in

As the coronavirus pandemic continues potentially be used for a vaccine against the years since he and his wife founded
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
to sweeps across the globe, and economies a different type of coronavirus that in 2000, made a name for himself in
prepare to reopen after months of affects animals. philanthropy, especially in the field of
shutdowns, lockdowns and other Like many scientists, Gates had already public health. The foundation funds
containment measures, focus is now warned of an imminent pandemic in vaccinations through programs like
shifting to efforts to find a vaccine. It is the years before the novel coronavirus GAVI, which Gates set up with a $750
this direction that places immunization, outbreak. million grant in 1999 and which is
once again in big headlines, this time as estimated to have saved millions of lives.
a result of the COVID 19 outbreak that Vaccines are always the source of both (The foundation’s support to GAVI has
started in Wuhan China. hope and fears as the benefits of getting
a vaccine are invisible. For some people, totaled $ 4.1 billion to date ) The Gates
But the pandemic has also provided invisible benefits that might materialize Foundation funds fights against diseases
fertile breeding ground for attacks on in the future are just not enough to like malaria and polio, and in its first
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, get them over the clear and present 20 years of existence, it has spent some
particularly by anti-vaccine campaigners fears common to people. As Melinda $ 40 billion on global development and
whose influential online presence was noted recently, most Americans “have public health programs.
already brewing years before the virus forgotten what measles deaths looks

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