According to a seven-month investigation by journalists located in the U.S. and Europe and the German daily WELT, Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global COVID response with little oversight.
The world's governments weren't ready when Covid-19 struck.
They made misguided attempts to stop a viral spread that quickly expanded over the world from America to Europe to Asia, shifting from downplaying the threat to sealing their borders. Four non-governmental global health organisations started preparing for a life-or-death battle against a virus that would know no frontiers while the most powerful countries turned inward.
According to a seven-month investigation by POLITICO journalists located in the U.S. and Europe and the German daily WELT, what followed was a slow, almost inevitable transfer of authority from the overwhelmed governments to a collection of non-governmental groups. The four groups assumed functions frequently performed by governments, b...