The former software tycoon and WHO financier called for emergency funding for the World Health Corps.
Preventing another pandemic like Covid-19 requires the establishment of a global response network, led by the World Health Organization, according to billionaire Bill Gates. He added that this effort should be led by recognized experts and public health workers.
“We must prepare to fight disease outbreaks like we prepare to fight wildfires,” Gates wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Sunday. This means “a well-funded system that is ready to spring into action the moment danger arises.”
He supported the WHO’s efforts to create a network of “senior leaders for health emergencies,” called the Global Health Emergencies Corps. This “corps of professionals from every country and region” should be well-funded and able to deploy in response to “transnational threats,” Gates wrote.
Such an organization was proposed in his 2022 book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, although Gates called it Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization (GERM) and put its size and funding at 3,000 people and an additional $1 billion in the WHO budget.
“To be successful, an emergency response corps must build on existing networks of experts and be led by people like the heads of national public health agencies and their epidemic response managers,” Gates insisted, even though the existing public health establishment was responsible for a response to Covid-19 that he himself described as inadequate.
According to Gates, the 2020 pandemic was a “collective failure to prepare for a pandemic despite many warnings”. His own foundation organized a pandemic preparedness exercise in October 2019, called “Event 201,” revolving around the novel coronavirus that is going global. Johns Hopkins University, which hosted the event, was later forced to clarify that the exercise had nothing to do with the actual coronavirus pandemic.
“The world must act now to ensure that Covid-19 becomes the last pandemic, and one of the biggest moves we can make is to support the world’s leading health experts – the WHO – and invest in the Global Health Emergency Corps so it can fulfill its full potential,” he said. is Gates in the Times.
The Microsoft co-founder invested his software fortune in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, spending millions to promote vaccination campaigns and pandemic preparedness. Gates has also spent millions buying farmland in the United States and championing green energy and alternative food sources. In an interview last month, he criticized Elon Musk’s SpaceX for funding a space program to colonize Mars, saying the money would be better spent on vaccines.
His wife Melinda filed for divorce in 2021, citing a series of issues that had built up over the years, including Bill’s relationship with accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. However, they continue to manage the foundation together because the crow does not take its eyes off the crow.
