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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warns that next pandemic could be worse

Bill Gates , the co-founder of Microsoft has warned that the upcoming pandemic could be 10 times worse and the humanity is not prepared for it. He also mentioned that people must learn a lesson from COVID-19.

According to Gates, “we are not prepared for the next pandemic,” and he also hopes that the current situation will change in a couple of years.

“This pandemic is bad, but a future pandemic could be 10 times more serious,” and stopping the next pandemic will require spending billions of dollars a year and he estimates the global expenditure for the COVID-19 pandemic is approximately 28 trillion dollars said the philanthropist.

He also mentioned that if this pandemic had occurred 5 years ago, our planet would not have had a vaccine in such a short time, while congratulating scientists for achieving the progress in a short time.

He also called on the rulers to avoid vaccination nationalism and to distribute the vaccine fairly

Bill gates explains that “stopping the next pandemic will require spending tens of billions of dollars a year.”

The Philanthropist said that the COVID-19 pandemic was the largest event that many people will experience in his entire life, this is not the first time that Bill Gates has warned of such great illnesses.

In a post on his Gates notes, Bill Gates Stated that:

“The unfortunate reality is that COVID-19 may not be the last pandemic,”

“We do not know when the next one will arrive, or if it will be flu, a coronavirus or some new disease that we have never seen before,”

“But what we do know is that we cannot allow ourselves to be caught off guard again. The threat of the next pandemic will always be over our heads, unless the world takes steps to prevent it.”

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