Bill Gates Proposes Global Surveillance Pact With WHO to Spot Pandemic Threats

Bill Gates Proposes Global Surveillance Pact With WHO to Spot Pandemic Threats
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during a panel discussion at the 2022 Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 18, 2022. Alexandra Beier/Getty Images
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Former world’s richest man Bill Gates called for a global surveillance team headed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to spot pandemic threats.

Speaking to the Financial Times over the past weekend, the Microsoft co-founder said that more money is needed to prevent a future pandemic from emerging. At the same time, Gates claimed that he believes WHO is the only organization that can run such an operation.
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