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Here's how much worse the International Monetary Fund projects the GDP downturn from the coronavirus pandemic will be, as compared to the 2008 recession: covid gdp dive Bill and Melinda Gates ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced it is dedicating another $150 million in funding for the global efforts against novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.What Happened The ...
Bill Gates' main idea is to create a global pandemic prevention team, known as GERM (Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization). Its objective is to ensure preparedness for the next pandemic. [4] According to Bill Gates, such a team could save billion of dollars by preventing crises like COVID-19. [5]
A $40 million investment will help several African manufacturers produce new messenger RNA vaccines on the continent where people were last in line to receive jabs during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
The Gates Foundation [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle , Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [ 4 ]
Following the COVID-19 pandemic Gates published How to Prevent the Next Pandemic in 2022 which proposes a "Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization" (GERM) team with annual funding of $1 billion, under the auspices of the WHO. [173] [174] The first of Gates's planned three memoirs, Source Code will be published in 2025. [175]
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's annual Goalkeepers report highlights the need to address childhood malnutrition against a backdrop of stagnating global public health spending.
In December 2020, the Gates Foundation donated another US$250 million to the ACT Accelerator to "support the delivery of new COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines, particularly in low- and middle-income countries" during 2021, making the Foundation's total donation of US$1.75 billion toward the COVID-19 response. [36] [37]