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Software magnate Bill Gates has raised the specter of future viruses  that could be more lethal than Covid-19, saying rich countries should  ramp up vaccine funding to brace for potentially catastrophic outbreaks. He noted that while  Covid-19's Delta and Omicron variants were among the most transmissible  viruses ever seen, the world could have been hit with a more virulent  pathogen, killing far more people. By investing in vaccine  research and production capacity to ensure that future jabs are quickly  made available all around the world, governments can prepare themselves  to blunt future outbreaks, Gates said.  "When we talk about  spending billions to save  . . . trillions of economic damage and tens  of billions of lives, it's a pretty good insurance policy."

Gates credited the group [CEPI] with saving  lives by helping to fund trials for several of the vaccines now  authorized for inoculation against Covid-19, but he lamented that  adequate supplies haven't reached developing nations quickly enough. ... Wellcome  Trust, a UK charity that focuses on medical research, matched the Gates foundation with its own $150 million pledge to CEPI. Jeremy Farrar, the director of Wellcome Trust, echoed Gates' comments on the dangers of future pandemics... "We were then and we are now living in what I think is an era of more frequent and more complex epidemics and pandemics," Farrar said.