The bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has a $ 40 billion endowment, and has worked on HIV and malaria and polio eradication. But Gates said the foundation has shifted much of that focus to work on the coronavirus.

A Gates Foundation spokesperson said in a statement that the foundation’remains committed to its core areas of focus including reducing infectious disease, eliminating extreme poverty, and improving us public education’.’even our non-health related work, like higher education and K-12 [ schools ], is completely switched around to look at how you facilitate online learning’.

The covid-19 pandemic is affecting all areas of our work.’the ripple effects will be felt for years to come,’ says the foundation.

The Gates Foundation already has pledged a total of $ 250 million. The foundation is working with the World Health Organization and other health organizations around the world.

‘we ca n’t keep getting malaria treatments out effectively, that’s a huge rebound in malaria,’ Gates said.

Gates criticized President Trump’s plan to suspend funding for the who. Earlier this month, Gates criticized Obama’s decision to suspend the who.

The world needs @ who now more than ever. Their work is slowing the spread of covid-19. If that work is stopped no other organization can replace them.

He said the Trump administration will decide that who’probably should get more money, not less money’. He said he believes the administration will ultimately decide whether who’will probably get more’.

In 2015, Gates warned during a TED talk that the world was not ready for a global pandemic. He warned in 2015 that the global pandemic was n’t ready.

Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO in 2000, and left his full-time role at Microsoft in 2008 to focus on the foundation work. During the pandemic Gates has become the top target of coronavirus misinformation.