The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder thinks the world is poised to make the same mistakes from the last pandemic.

Bill Gates estimates a 10-15% chance of another pandemic occurring within the next four years, citing unprepared global health infrastructure. Despite lessons from COVID-19, Gates emphasizes ongoing risks due to political divisions and inadequate international cooperation.

Bill Gates said in a recent interview that the chance of another pandemic in the next 4 years is between 10% and 15%.

Finance Minister Rachel Reeves needs output to pick up in order to drive higher tax revenues. However, private sector activity fell again in the three months to January, the Confederation of British Industry’s monthly growth indicator said, reaching its weakest level since February 2021 when lockdown rules were still in force.

The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely."

SARS-CoV-2 virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The ensuing pandemic has killed millions worldwide. Vaccines have made the condition much less fatal for those who have been vaccinated,

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.

The CIA has assessed that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab incident, though both lab and natural origins remain plausible.

An executive order is in the works that would halt U.S. funding for research that makes viruses that are more virulent or contagious.

The finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin, but the agency's assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion.

The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is “more likely” to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday