On July 11, local time, Bill Gates, co-chairman of the United States Gates Foundation, said in a speech at the International AIDS Conference that the damage caused by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic may prevent thousands of people from sub-Saharan Africa Other treatments needed.
Bill Gates warned that the new coronary pneumonia epidemic has begun to disrupt the global medical supply chain, slowing the prevention and treatment of all other diseases, including AIDS. He also stated that if medicines and vaccines were obtained by the "highest bidders", rather than being provided to those who really needed them, the world would face "longer, more unfair and deadly epidemics."