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Inside the Gates Foundation fight against the pandemic

FOUR days before the World Health Organization had named the new coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2, was the nightmare scenario that Bill Gates had been predicting for years: a deadly virus with the potential to sicken millions of people and devastate the global economy.

He had warned, in 2010, that the H1N1 outbreak was a “wake-up call” for the world to prepare for a deadly pandemic. Five years later, as Africa was reeling from an

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