Bill Gates calls coronavirus a ‘once-in-a-century’ pathogen

Philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday warned that the coronavirus is beginning to behave like a ‘once-in-a-century’ pathogen with the potential to kill more people than the 66,000 Americans who died in the 1957 influenza pandemic. ‘The data so far suggest that the virus has a case fatality risk around 1 per cent,’ Gates wrote. ‘This … Read more