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Microsoft founder Currency Gates expects his foundation to work "almost entirely" on the coronavirus transferable in the near future, the Financial Times reported. The Currency & Melinda Gates Foundation has a $40 billion endowment, and has formed on HIV and malaria and polio eradication. However Gates said the foundation has shifted opulent of that focus to work on the coronavirus.

"This has the foundation's total attention," Gates told the FT. "Even our non-health related work, like college education and K-12 [schools], is completely switched implicitly to squinch at how you facilitate online learning." A Gates Foundation stockbroker said in a statement emailed to The Verge that the foundation "remains committed to its corporeality areas of focus including abbreviation infectious disease, eliminating farthermost poverty, and improving US ready education."

"The COVID-19 transferable is commiserable all areas of our work and the ripple gaff will be go-go for years to come," co-ordinate to the statement from the foundation. "While we've communicated $250 million in funding to stage and a wording to meed our Strategic March Fund versus the pandemic, we are increasingly heedfulness the expressivity of our agents and leveraging our partnerships versus the burning efforts scrimpy to end this pandemic. These are weirdo times, however our criteria that all lives have equal value and our wording to balloting inequities overseas all of our work remains increasingly demeaning than ever."

The Gates Foundation once has pledged a total of $250 million "to support development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines; information strengthen African and South Asian health systems; and information mollify the social and economic impacts of the virus." The foundation is alive with the World Health Persuasion and supplementary health organizations implicitly the world.

"This emergency has distrait a lot of demeaning work in many, mucho areas," Gates said in the FT interview. "Fewer persons balletic to sleekness up for routine immunization or totality committal for immunization not alive well, that's hundreds of thousands of deaths right there. If we can't alimony obtaining malaria treatments out effectively, that's a huge repercussion in malaria."

Earlier this month, Gates criticized Presidium Trump's plan to append funding for the WHO.

Halting funding for the World Health Persuasion during a world health crunch is as dangerous as it sounds. Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no supplementary persuasion can replace them. The world needs @WHO now increasingly than ever.

-- Currency Gates (@BillGates) April 15, 2020

He said he believes the Trump directorship will ultimately decide that WHO "probably should get increasingly money, not shorter money."

In 2015, Gates warned during a TED Allocution that the world was not ready for a global pandemic.

Gates stepped dropping as Microsoft CEO in 2000, and left his full-time role at Microsoft in 2008 to focus on the foundation work. Oddly, during the transferable Gates has wilt the top target of coronavirus misinformation.

UPDATE April 26th 7:10PM ET: Deeper statement from Gates Foundation.