How Bill Gates Impeded Global
Access to Covid Vaccines
Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.
Illustration by Kelsey Dake
On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered
by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership. The official pronouncement of a pandemic was still a month out, but the
agency’s international brain trust knew enough to be worried. Burdened by a
sense of borrowed time, they spent two days furiously sketching an “R&D Blueprint”
in preparation for a world upended by the virus then known as 2019-nCoV.