Gates, who co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that’s at the global vanguard of infectious disease research and treatments, told Trump right before he took office only a few weeks later that he ought to make preparedness for the danger posed by pandemics a priority of his administration. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal report Monday recapping Gates’ years-long effort to warn decision-makers about the threats posed by infectious diseases. “I feel terrible,” he says now. And, “I wish I had done more to call attention to the danger.”
Some weird tidbits have already public surfaced about that late 2016 meeting between Gates and the president, which apparently didn’t include Gates’ warning about a pandemic registering with Trump. The president, as has been his practice pretty much since the outbreak of the coronavirus, has repeatedly insisted that “nobody could have predicted” the COVID-19 virus.
Gates, who co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that’s at the global vanguard of infectious disease research and treatments, told Trump right before he took office only a few weeks later that he ought to make preparedness for the danger posed by pandemics a priority of his administration. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal report Monday recapping Gates’ years-long effort to warn decision-makers about the threats posed by infectious diseases. “I feel terrible,” he says now. And, “I wish I had done more to call attention to the danger.”
Some weird tidbits have already public surfaced about that late 2016 meeting between Gates and the president, which apparently didn’t include Gates’ warning about a pandemic registering with Trump. The president, as has been his practice pretty much since the outbreak of the coronavirus, has repeatedly insisted that “nobody could have predicted” the COVID-19 virus.