The Microsoft co-founder said he believes there is a 10-15 percent chance of a natural pandemic hitting in the next four years.
The CIA says lab leak is most likely source of COVID outbreak. But there is no consensus among scientists whether it originated in nature or from an accidental leak. Not to mention the fact we're still living with COVID: The World Health Organization COVID-19 Dashboard continues to report hundreds of thousands of cases every month worldwide.
The Central Intelligence Agency previously said that two explanations were plausible, a lab leak or a natural source for the virus. Yet under new agency director John Ratcliffe, the CIA has changed its view, which is now in line with that of the Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder thinks the world is poised to make the same mistakes from the last pandemic.
Previously, the CIA did not take a position on where the virus - which is responsible for more than seven million deaths worldwide - came from.
The CIA investigated the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, and determined, with low confidence, the origin was likely a lab leak in China.
Bill Gates said in a recent interview that the chance of another pandemic in the next 4 years is between 10% and 15%.
China urged the US to “stop politicising and instrumentalising the issue of origin-tracing”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The President of the Alberta Medical Association describes a new report on the Alberta government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as anti-science and anti-evidence.
(CNN)– Starbucks is rolling out some changes. First off, a tweak to its name is a part of the changes. Starbucks will now be known as “Starbucks Coffee Company”. The chain is also bringing back policies taken away during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Firearm injuries that sent victims to the hospital had gone down steadily over the five years before the COVID-19 pandemic began, but reversed course sharply over the next two years, a new University of Michigan study finds.