{"id":1559,"date":"2020-03-17T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T07:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:43:18","slug":"bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-pledges-100-m-to-aid-corona-virus-in-africa-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $100 M to aid Corona Virus in Africa and China."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During a presentation to American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle, Bill Gates reportedly warned that the coronavirus could overwhelm health systems on the African continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coronavirus,  if it&#8217;s in Africa &#8230; it&#8217;s more dramatic than if it&#8217;s in China, even though I&#8217;m not trying to minimize what&#8217;s going on in China in any way,&#8221; Gates said, according to a report by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/02\/15\/coronovirus-bill-gates-warns-10-million-deaths-virus-spreads\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a>. &#8220;Will this get into Africa or not and if so, will those health systems be overwhelmed?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gates said the potential impact in sub-Saharan Africa could be &#8220;very, very dramatic.&#8221;  He added that the coronavirus could evolve into a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one sense, Gates said, the virus is more concerning than Ebola, since it spreads far faster. The fatality rate of the new coronavirus, which appears to be around 2% is far lower than Ebola&#8217;s, however.&nbsp;&#8220;If you look at Ebola, most of the excess deaths were caused because the health service shut down,&#8221; Gates said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just the direct effect, it&#8217;s also the panic, the overload, and the things that affect health workers because you&#8217;re already at very limited capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds child-immunization efforts in the developing world. Last month, the foundation\u00a0pledged to spend $100 million\u00a0to aid the fight to contain the outbreak in China and Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a presentation to American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle, Bill Gates reportedly warned that the coronavirus could overwhelm health systems on the African continent. Coronavirus, if it&#8217;s in Africa &#8230; it&#8217;s more dramatic than if it&#8217;s in China, even though I&#8217;m not trying to minimize what&#8217;s going on in China &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}