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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates review – a germ of an idea

You’d have to be living under a rock not to know we are in the midst of one of the most devastating pandemics in history. Just how devastating became clear earlier this month when the World Health Organization estimating the global excess death toll due to the pandemic as 15 million – nearly three times the official Covid death count. think global excess deaths may be closer to 18 million. These are awfully big numbers, but they pale in comparison with the 1918-1919 Spanish influenza pandemic, which

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