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Gates wants a Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization (GERM) team to monitor disease, declare an outbreak, work with national governments and the World Bank to raise money for the response, and coordinate responses such as mask mandates and border closures.

Professor Mike Baillie at Queen’s University, Belfast, used tree rings to determine that there was a major change in the global environment at the time. Antarctic ice-cores also confirm a dramatic rise in carbon dioxide gas at exactly the same time medieval writers were claiming the atmosphere was corrupted.