Recently, Bill Gates said COVID is kind of like the flu and called it the disease of elderly people with low fatality but eventually hedged.
Bill Gates is not an immunologist and does not even appear as one on television.
However, through his philanthropic foundation, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has immersed himself in the study of the world's issues and donated billions of dollars to combat the spread of malaria in Africa. People pay attention when he speaks, which makes what he said regarding COVID-19 last week intriguing.
“It wasn’t until early February, when I was in a meeting, that experts of the foundation, said ‘there’s no way'” that COVID-19 could have been contained, he said.
“At that point, we didn’t really understand the fatality rate. We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate, and that it’s a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like the flu, although it’s a bit different than that,” Gates said.
He eventually backtracked, st...