Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a major investor in vaccine and surveillance technologies, on Friday acknowledged to attendees of Germany’s annual Munich Security Conference that natural immunity provides powerful protection against coronavirus and that Omicron has exceeded the ability of vaccines to confer that protection to a large swath of humanity.
"Sadly, the virus itself - particularly the variant Omicron - is a type of vaccine. That is, it creates both B cell and T cell immunity,” Gates said. “And it’s done a better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines.”