- Blogs criticize the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation for predicting "up to 65 million deaths" from coronavirus during a pandemic simulation exercise.
- The exercise was not about the strain that is currently plaguing China.
- Bill Gates has already been intoxicated.
Was the coronavirus epidemic, responsible for 170 deaths in China, anticipated by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation? The foundation of the American billionaire and his wife is accused of "having predicted up to 65 million deaths linked to the coronavirus. The claim is spread by several blogs, which state that this prediction took place during a "simulation" which was "carried out three months ago".
According to these blogs, the exercise, entitled Event 201, was carried out jointly with the World Economic Forum and the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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The John Hokins Center for Health Security did conduct a desk simulation exercise in October 2019, but it was not about the strain of coronavirus that is currently hitting China. "Although our tabletop exercise included a new fictitious coronavirus, the data we used to model the potential impact of this fictitious virus is not similar to nCoV-2019 [the virus detected in China]", said the center in a statement.
The center also did not predict that the nCoV-2019 would kill 65 million people. "For the scenario [of the exercise], we modeled a fictitious coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly declared that it was not a prediction," says the center. On the contrary, the exercise served to highlight the challenges of preparation and response that would probably arise in the event of a very serious pandemic. "
Part of the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation involves research into vaccination, which has already resulted in him being intoxicated.
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