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Bill Gates warned in 2015 TED Talk that next big threat to humanity was a coronavirus-like pandemic NewsColony Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates predicted a global pandemic would kill many people and grind the world economy to a halt in a 2015 TED Talk. As world governments struggle to grapple with the rapidly spreading coronavirus , Gates warned years ago that humanity was ill-prepared for a fast-spreading, life-threatening pathogen. With over 236,000 infections and more than 9,700 deaths, the epidemic has stunned the world and drawn comparisons with painful periods such as World War Two, the 2008 financial crisis and the 1918 Spanish flu. In 2015, Gates told a TED Talk that if the wealthiest nations had prepared for a pandemic with the same urgency that they prepared for nuclear war, this could have been avoided. [embedded content] Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates gave a TED Talk in 2015 warning that the world was ill-prepared for a global pandemic A man is seen abo...