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Bill Gates warns Trump on Halting WHO funding can be dangerous

President of the United States’ Donald Trump who declared that he is stopping funding to the WHO (World Health Organization) while a review is conducted and WHO experts have rounded on Donald Trump, warning that his decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization is recklessly endangering the chances of ending the pandemic as fast as possible.

Meanwhile,The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist  Bill Gates expressed his anger and dissatisfaction in President Trump’s declaration Tuesday that he would freeze U.S. funding for the World Health Organization.

In a tweet about the issue, after 10 p.m. Seattle time, Gates said stopping funding for WHO during a world health emergency “is as dangerous as it sounds” and that no other organization can replace the work of the WHO.

For a person with almost 50 million Twitter followers, who routinely gets somewhere in the range of 1,000 to 30,000 likes for what he shares on the internet based life stage, Gates’ Tuesday tweet contacted a greater than-ordinary nerve and became a web sensation. It was ticking past 200,000 preferences Wednesday morning, more than 54,000 retweets and 28,000 answers.

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Bill gates has not been modest about imparting his insight about the continuous medical emergency, what steps ought to have been taken to forestall it, what should be done to slow it and what slips up have been made by Trump and the 

Federal government. 

Gates has been a normal on TV news projects and he’s done interviews with an assortment of outlets. “We should have done more,” he said on March 24.. The way that he saw everything coming, and communicated how ill-equipped we as a whole were in a TED Talk five years back, has been a steady update when his name comes up during the present pandemic.

Replies to Gates’ tweet ranged from agreement to calls for him to write a check himself. Many of those criticizing Gates tweeted their own conspiracy theories about his agenda, his work on vaccines and worse

In a Twitter thread of his own, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, a friend of Bill and Melinda Gates, shared his own view of the WHO and linked to his column about Trump’s decision, headlined “Trump’s Deadly Search for a Scapegoat.”

Trump, who has been broadly condemned for a moderate and insufficient reaction as the coronavirus hit the U.S., has been progressively upset at his day by day White House news briefings on the emergency. On Tuesday, the president defended his initial choice to end travel among China and the U.S. furthermore, censured the WHO for “seriously blundering and concealing the spread of the coronavirus.” 

A year ago, the United States contributed about $553 million of the WHO’s $6 billion spending plan, The New York Times announced, calling it “a noteworthy entirety to lose in a pandemic

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