In 2015, the Microsoft co-founder, billionaire & philanthropist Bill Gates told an audience: 'If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes'
where he spoke about the global impact of the novel coronavirus and his 2015 Ted Talk prediction that a health crisis would one day destabilize the United States.
"We've actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic," he said at the time, echoing warnings in recent years from infectious disease doctors. "We're not ready for the next epidemic." According to Gates, past health crises — including the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918 — should have served as lessons to government leaders about how to prevent more in the future.
Gates went on to say that his foundation, which he said "does far more in terms of infectious disease work than any group in the world," has had to press pause on projects relating to other issues such as polio and HIV to fully focus on COVID-19 relief efforts.
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