ICYMI: A special 7-month Covid investigation

Sep 17, 2022

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When Covid-19 struck, the governments of the world weren't prepared.

So four non-governmental global health organizations began making plans for a life-or-death struggle against a virus that would know no boundaries:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropies in the world
Gavi, the global vaccine organization that Gates helped to found to inoculate people in low-income nations
Wellcome Trust, a British research foundation with a multi-billion dollar endowment had worked with the Gates Foundation in previous years
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, an international vaccine research and development group that Gates and Wellcome both helped to create in 2017

On Friday, we published a seven-month investigation into the steady, almost inexorable power shift from overwhelmed governments to these unelected, privately-funded groups.

Armed with expertise, bolstered by contacts at the highest levels of Western nations and empowered by well-grooved relationships with drug makers, the four organizations took on roles often played by governments — but without the accountability of governments.

Gates Foundation gave more to WHO than U.S. did

They used their clout with the World Health Organization to help create an ambitious worldwide distribution plan taking into account needy nations — though it would ultimately fail to live up to its original promises.

You can read the full investigation here.

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