Bill Gates, founder of the company Microsoft and one of the most influential tycoons in the world, sounded the alarm and issued a stern warning about the future of the covid-19 pandemic: “We have never seen the worst“.

“We’re still in danger that this pandemic will develop a variant that still isn’t more transferable and more lethal“, guess.

In an interview published in The Financial Timesthe American tycoon asserted that, despite maintaining advanced vaccination, the virus “still represents a plague on society“And that” we still have time to make the situation worse. “

“I don’t want to be the voice of pessimism, but there is a risk of more than 5% that we have not seen the worst of this pandemic ”, He added.

Gates made a strong appeal to world leaders he asked “higher financial commitment“to address the threat of the virus across the planet and directly instructed the World Health Organization (WHO), which he accused of” not taking the problem seriously. ”

“In health systems, the amount of money invested is very small compared to the return. Current funding from the World Health Organization the pandemic is not taken seriously“, he complained.

Two and a half years after the outbreak of the coronavirus, the data indicate that more than 6.2 million people worldwide have died due to covid-19. And even with widespread vaccination, the mortality rate has dropped sharply, with countries like China involved in fighting the virus keeping their vigil.

Gates was one of the first references to anticipate the coming of a pandemic for which “the world is not ready”. And in a conversation made eight years he warns that when it comes “it will be inevitable and catastrophic.”

In this sense, the technology entrepreneur pointed out that “it took a longer duration of vaccines against COVID-19 that could block the infection and resources had to be depleted to achieve this.”

New book

Bill Gates ’statements are in line with the launch of his new book:“How to prevent the next pandemic”.

There, the fourth richest man in the world taught: “I have been monitoring COVID since the early days of the outbreak, working with experts inside and outside the Gates Foundation advocating for a more equitable response and fighting infectious diseases. for decades “.

“I learned a lot in the process, both about this pandemic and how to stop the next one, and I wanted to share what I heard with people. So I started writing a book on how we can make sure there is no pandemic again.”

More than his harsh sign, Gates said he was “optimistic” that the coronavirus could be “the last pandemic that we face. ”

On the topic, Microsoft’s co-founder in the interview suggested “creating a working group to manage global health emergencies, as the World Health Organization (WHO) currently has‘ less than 10 full-time people ‘in search of new. deadly viruses. “

In this regard, he considered that the epidemic response team “may consist of experts that include computer scientists as well as epidemiologists,” he said.

In the final sections of his conversation with the British newspaper, Gates reaffirmed the call to “world leaders” to continue investing in various medical research.