© Getty Images / Chris Jackson The billionaire calls for massive government investments to prepare for potential outbreaks that could be deadlier than Covid-19 Software magnate Bill Gates has raised the specter of future viruses that could be more lethal than Covid-19, saying rich countries should ramp up vaccine funding to brace for potentially catastrophic outbreaks...

This picture taken on November 05, 2021 shows a child receiving a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, California...

Toddlers born during the pandemic scored lower on some skills development tests than those born earlier...

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FILE PHOTO © AFP / Mohamad Ali Harissi The United Arab Emirates has allowed international travel to the jabbed and boosted only Unvaccinated UAE citizens will be banned from traveling abroad starting January 10, according to local media, citing the country’s crisis management agencies...

A police officer stands next to boxes of expired AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines as they are destroyed by a bulldozer, in Abuja, Nigeria, December 22, 2021...

© Evan Vucci/Pool via REUTERS Billionaire Bill Gates has found little sympathy after saying he has canceled most of his holiday plans over the Covid variant Omicron, while also providing advice on how the pandemic can end in 2022...

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock holds a news conference at 10 Downing Street, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain March 17, 2021...

A health worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccine centre set up at City Hall in Hull, northeast England on May 7, 2021...

Venezuelans wait in line to get a COVID-19 test at a testing center in Cucuta, on the Colombian border with Venezuela, on December 28, 2020...

Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman of Iran Food and Drug Administration (IFDA) An Iranian Health Ministry official says the production of coronavirus vaccine in cooperation with Cuba is one of Tehran’s priorities after such other alternatives as purchasing from a foreign country and participation in the World Health Organization’s COVAX program...

The file photo shows a coronavirus lab at the Pasteur Institute of Iran in Tehran...

File photo of a nurse preparing Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine against the coronavirus disease for inoculation in a post-registration trials stage at a clinic in Moscow...

Democratic US presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden pauses during remarks about his plans to develop and distribute a safe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine if elected president, during a campaign statement after being briefed by public health experts in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on September 16, 2020...

Scientists at the University of Oxford say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot...

A woman is seen holding a small bottle labeled Vaccine COVID-19 and a medical syringe in this photo illustration taken on April 10, 2020...

In this file photo a worker packs rabies vaccines at a lab at the Yisheng Biopharma Company, where researchers are trying to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Shenyang in China’s northeast Liaoning province, on June 9, 2020...