'I hope it's not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise,' Gates wrote in an article published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
that has killed at least 2,859 people and infected more than 83,700 globally may be the 'once-in-a-century pathogen we've been worried about."
According to Gates, COVID-19 poses a serious threat to the world because it's far more deadly and contagious than many other deadly viruses. The mortality rate is "many times more severe than typical seasonal influenza," Gates said. The World Health Organization said the, ranging from 0.7% to up to 4%, depending on the quality of the health-care system where it's treated. Gates said that its current average estimated fatality rate of around 1% places it somewhere between the 1957 Asian flu pandemic that killed 1.
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