Bill Gates has said that the risk of serious illness from Covid-19 had been significantly reduced but another pandemic was all but certain.
Speaking to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at the annual German security conference in Munich, Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said a potential new pandemic would likely come from another pathogen in the coronavirus family.
But he added that advances in medical technology should help the world fight them better if invested now.
“We’ll have another pandemic. It will be a different pathogen next time,” Gates said.
The Microsoft founder has received much criticism throughout the pandemic from those opposed to mandatory vaccination, which they say he’s been pushing across the world.
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