1998
May 18:
The U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 states file
antitrust charges against Microsoft.
2000
2000:
Bill Gates steps
down from his position as Microsoft CEO, and Bill and Melinda
Gates launch their eponymous
foundation.
2000:
The Gates
Foundation (along with other partners) launches the Global
Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), known today as
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The foundation has given
$4.1 billion to Gavi over the past 20 years.
2001
November: After
initially losing the antitrust lawsuit and appealing the
decision, Microsoft
settles its case with the DOJ out of court.
2002
November 2002:
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) researcher Ralph
Baric publishes a "breakthrough
work" in gain-of-function research (studies that alter
pathogens to make them more transmissible or deadly, see Notes
above), describing the creation of a synthetic clone of a
natural
mouse coronavirus.
November 2002:
China's Guangdong province reports the first case of "atypical
pneumonia" (later labeled as
SARS).
The speed
of the Baric group illustrates how quickly a qualified team
of virologists can create a synthetic clone from a natural
virus, and therefore make genetic modifications to it.
2003
October
28: A
paper by the Baric research group at UNC describes their
synthetic recreation of the "previously undescribed" SARS
coronavirus.
Writing in
2020, a scientist states,
"The speed
of the Baric group illustrates how quickly a qualified team
of virologists can create a synthetic clone from a natural
virus, and therefore
make genetic modifications to it. Moreover, that was
back in 2003.
Today, a qualified laboratory can repeat those
steps in a matter of weeks."
2005
December: Congress
approves the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP)
Act, which authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS),
"to issue a
PREP Act Declaration... that provides
immunity from liability for any loss caused, arising out
of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of
countermeasures to diseases, threats, and conditions
determined in the Declaration to constitute a present or
credible risk of a future public health emergency."
2009
2009-present (and earlier):
The Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation awards
millions of dollars in global health funding to Imperial
College London; funding covers areas such as polio, HIV, family
planning, malaria, health care delivery, agricultural
development, information technology and "public awareness and
analysis."
2009:
The Gates
Foundation funds human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine trials in
India, administering the vaccine to 23,000 young girls in remote
provinces.
Seven die and
approximately 1,200 suffer autoimmune conditions, fertility
disorders or other
severe reactions. Ethical violations include forged consent
forms and refusal of medical treatment for the injured girls.
October
2009: Dr.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID), goes on YouTube to declare that
serious adverse events for
the H1N1 influenza vaccine are "very,
very, very rare."
Months later,
serious adverse events such as,
miscarriages, narcolepsy and
febrile convulsions,
...explode in
multiple countries.
2010
January: Bill
Gates pledges
$10 billion in funding for the World Health Organization
(WHO) and announces "the Decade of Vaccines."
May 18:
Senator and physician Tom Coburn calls out Dr. Fauci for
misleadingly touting "significant progress in HIV vaccine
research" - research that has ushered millions into NIAID's
coffers.
Dr. Coburn
stated,
"Most
scientists involved in AIDS research believe that an HIV
vaccine is further away than ever."
2011
December 30: Dr.
Fauci promotes gain-of-function research on bird flu viruses,
arguing that the research is
worth the risk. The risks worry other "seasoned
researchers."
2012
April
20: Baylor College
researchers publish their evaluation of
four vaccine candidates for SARS, concluding that,
"Caution in
proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is
indicated."
May:
The 194 Member
States of the World Health Assembly
endorse the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), led by the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with NIAID,
WHO, Gavi, UNICEF and others.
Dr. Fauci is one of
five members on the GVAP's Leadership Council.
2014
2014:
Dr.
Deborah Birx takes the helm of PEPFAR (the President's
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), which Dr. Fauci helped launch
(in 2003) and which benefits from generous Gates Foundation
support.
Birx and Fauci are long-time allies, having worked
together during the early years of AIDS and sharing overlapping
career paths.
October
7: National
Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins announces a
"new
phase of cooperation" between NIH and the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, including partnering for vaccine development.
October
17: Under
President Obama, the NIH
halts federal funding for gain-of-function (GOF) research
(see Notes) and asks federally funded GOF researchers to "agree
to a voluntary moratorium."
The funding
hiatus applies to 21 studies,
"reasonably
anticipated to confer attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS
viruses such that the virus would have enhanced
pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in mammals via the
respiratory route."
NIH later
allows 10 of the studies to
resume.
[T]hese
data and restrictions represent a crossroads of
[gain-of-function] research concerns; the potential to
prepare for and mitigate future outbreaks must be weighed
against the risk of creating more dangerous pathogens.
2015
2015:
NIAID, under Fauci,
awards a five-year, $3.7 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance
(whose director gets credit on subsequent publications for "funding
acquisition" rather than scientific work) to conduct
gain-of-function studies on the "risk of bat coronavirus
emergence."
Ten percent of
the award goes to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which does
"the bulk of the
on-the-ground sample collection and analysis."
January: In a
public appearance, Bill Gates states,
"We're
taking things that are
genetically modified organisms and we're injecting them
into little kids' arms; we just shoot 'em right into the
vein."
September 24:
UNC's Ralph Baric
is granted a patent for the creation of chimeric coronavirus
spike proteins.
November 9: Baric
and the Wuhan Institute's Shi Zheng-Li (the leading GOF
coronavirus researcher in China)
publish what some refer to as "the
most famous gain-of-function virology paper" (in Nature
Medicine), describing their creation of a synthetic
chimeric coronavirus.
The authors
state:
"[T]hese
data and restrictions represent a crossroads of GOF research
concerns; the potential to prepare for and mitigate future
outbreaks must be weighed against the risk of creating
more dangerous pathogens.
In
developing policies moving forward, it is important to
consider the value of the data generated by these studies
and whether these types of chimeric virus studies warrant
further investigation versus the inherent risks involved."
2016
2016:
The National
Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
states that,
"very few
government-funded gain-of-function experiments [pose] a
significant threat to public health",
…researchers blame the Gates-funded polio vaccination
campaign for almost half a million cases of childhood
paralysis.
2017
February 8: The
Modi administration in India
severs ties with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, after
researchers blame the Gates-funded polio vaccination campaign
for
almost half a million cases of childhood paralysis.
November 30: Shi
Zheng-Li and coauthors publish a paper in PLoS Pathogens
describing the creation of
eight new synthetic coronaviruses.
December 19: The
NIH and Dr. Fauci's NIAID
restore federal funding for gain-of-function research,
ending the moratorium that began in October 2014.
December 19: Dr.
Marc Lipsitch of the Harvard School of Public Health tells the
New York Times that the type of gain-of-function
experiments endorsed by Dr. Fauci's NIAID have,
"done
almost nothing to improve our preparedness for
pandemics, and yet risked creating an accidental pandemic."
NIAID
awards a six-year renewal grant of $3.7 million to EcoHealth
Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology to continue
their gain-of-function studies on bat coronaviruses.
2019
2019:
NIAID awards a
six-year renewal grant of $3.7 million to EcoHealth Alliance and
the Wuhan Institute of Virology to continue their
gain-of-function studies on bat coronaviruses.
The renewal is
approved "unusually
quickly," receiving a "really extremely high priority for
funding."
August
14: Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) records show that the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation owns
5.3 million shares of Crown Castle International Corp.,
representing the Foundation's second largest tech holding after
Microsoft. Crown Castle dominates ownership of
5G infrastructure throughout the U.S., including cell
towers, small cell nodes and fiber.
October: A report
released by NBC News in May, 2020
declares,
"The analysis of commercial telemetry data in
Wuhan suggests the COVID-19 pandemic began earlier than
initially reported" and "supports the release of COVID-19 at the
Wuhan Institute of Virology."
NBC's May 8
summary states,
"there was no cellphone activity in a
high-security portion of the Wuhan Institute of Virology from
Oct. 7 through Oct. 24, 2019, and that there may have been a 'hazardous event' sometime between Oct. 6 and Oct. 11."
October
6: On May 5, 2020,
British and French researchers
publish a study estimating that COVID-19 could have started
as early as October 6, 2019.
October
18-27: Wuhan hosts
the Military World Games ("Wuhan 2019"), held every four years.
More than 9,000 athletes from
over 100 countries compete.
The telecom systems for the
Athletes' Village constructed for the event are powered by 5G
technology, "showcas[ing] its infrastructure and technological
prowess."
October
18: The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum and the Johns
Hopkins Center for Health Security convene an invitation-only
"tabletop exercise" called
Event 201 to map out the response to a hypothetical global
coronavirus pandemic.
November-December:
General practitioners in northern
Italy start noticing a "strange
pneumonia."
December 2-3:
Vaccine scientists attending the WHO's Global Vaccine Safety
Summit confirm
major problems with vaccine safety around the world.
December 18:
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
report the development of a "novel way to record a patient's
vaccination history," using smartphone-readable nanocrystals
called "quantum dots" embedded in the skin using microneedles -
this work is
funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
December 31:
Chinese officials inform the WHO about a
cluster of "mysterious pneumonia" cases. Later, the
South China Morning Post reports that it can trace the
first case back to
November 17.
Dr. Peter
Hotez of Baylor College … tells a Congressional Committee
that coronavirus vaccines have always had a "unique
potential safety problem"
2020
January
7: Chinese
authorities formally
identify a "novel" coronavirus.
January
10: China makes
the
genome sequence of the new coronavirus publicly available.
January
11: China records
its
first death attributed to the new coronavirus.
January
20: The first
U.S. coronavirus case is reported in Washington State.
January
23: Shi Zheng-Li
releases a paper reporting that the new coronavirus is
96% identical to a strain that her lab isolated from bats in
2013 but
never publicized.
January
30: The WHO
declares the new coronavirus a "global
health emergency."
Jan.
31, 2020: A group
of Indian scientists publishes a
study finding HIV sequences in the 2019-nCoV coronavirus.
The scientists withdraw the study within 24 hours, presumably
under some pressure.
February 4:
Sixty-seven year-old scientist Dr. Frank Plummer, head until
2015 of Canada's level-4 National Microbiology Laboratory,
dies under mysterious circumstances while in Nairobi, Kenya.
During the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s, Plummer told the
New York Times that
60% of "probable" and "suspected" SARS cases had failed the
test needed to confirm a link between coronavirus and SARS:
"[W]hether
it is the entire explanation for SARS I am just not sure yet."
February 4: With
just 11 people in the U.S. who are confirmed to have COVID-19,
HHS issues a
Declaration, published on March 17 in the Federal Register,
that places the new coronavirus under the umbrella of the 2005
PREP Act, making medical countermeasures (including vaccines)
immune from liability.
February 5: Bill
and Melinda Gates announce
$100 million in funding for coronavirus vaccine research and
treatment efforts.
February 10:
French and Canadian scientists publish a paper about the new
coronavirus describing an
"important" anomaly - 12 additional nucleotides - not
observed in previous coronaviruses.
They suggest that the
distinct feature "may provide a gain-of-function... for
efficient spreading in the human population."
February 11: The
WHO gives the disease thought to be caused by the new
coronavirus
a name: "COVID-19." WHO's Director-General explains,
"We had
to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an
animal, an individual or group of people, and which is also
pronounceable and related to the disease."
February 24:
Moderna, Inc. sends the first batch of its
experimental coronavirus vaccine, mRNA-1273, to its research
partner, NIAID.
February 25:
Moderna stock shares trade
15% higher.
February 29: The
U.S. reports its
first COVID-19 death.
March
5: Dr. Peter Hotez
of Baylor College (who has previously tried to develop a SARS
vaccine) tells a Congressional Committee that coronavirus
vaccines have always had a "unique
potential safety problem" - a "kind of paradoxical immune
enhancement phenomenon."
March
6: President Trump
signs an
$8.3 billion emergency coronavirus spending package, much of
which "directly benefit[s] the
drug industry."
March
10: Dr. Paul Offit
of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia expresses
concerns about the push to "rush [a vaccine] through,"
particularly in the absence of "any history of making a
coronavirus vaccine."
March
10: The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome and Mastercard commit $125
million to identify, assess, develop and scale up COVID-19
treatments, forming the
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator.
The $50 million in Gates
Foundation funding is part of the $100 million in COVID-19
funding announced by Gates on February 5.
March
11: The WHO
declares COVID-19 a
pandemic.
March
13: Bill Gates
steps down from the Boards of Microsoft and Berkshire
Hathaway to "dedicate more time to philanthropic priorities."
March
16: Neil Ferguson
of Imperial College London, scientific advisor to the UK
government, publishes his computer simulations warning that
there will be
over two million COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. unless the
country adopts "intensive and socially disruptive measures."
March
16: Dr. Fauci
tells Americans that they must be prepared to "take
more drastic steps" and "hunker down significantly" to slow
the coronavirus's spread.
March
16: NIAID launches
a
Phase 1 trial in 45 healthy adults of the mRNA-1273
coronavirus vaccine co-developed by NIAID and Moderna, Inc.
The
trial skips the customary step of testing the vaccine in
animal models prior to proceeding to human trials.
March
17: The Nation
publishes an analysis covering
conflicts of interest in the Gates Foundation's charitable
giving, describing,
"close to $2 billion in tax-deductible
charitable donations to private companies," including
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and "close to $250 million in charitable
grants... to companies in which the foundation holds corporate
stocks and bonds," including Merck, GSK, Sanofi and other
pharmaceutical corporations.
A critic states that the foundation
has,
"created one of the most problematic precedents in the
history of foundation giving by essentially opening the door for
corporations to see themselves as deserving charity claimants at
a time when corporate profits are at an all-time high."
March
22: U.S.
bioweapons expert Dr. Francis Boyle repeats earlier statements
that the purpose of Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) labs such as the
Wuhan Institute of Virology,
"is the research, development,
testing and stockpiling of offensive biological weapons" and
that the new virus is a "weaponized" SARS coronavirus that
leaked out of the Wuhan BSL-4 lab.
Bill Gates
announces significant funding for a company, EarthNow, that
will blanket Earth with $1 billion in video surveillance
satellites.
March
24: Bill Gates
announces significant funding for a company, EarthNow, that will
blanket Earth with $1 billion in
video surveillance satellites.
March
26: Microsoft
announces that it is acquiring
Affirmed Networks, a company focused on 5G and "edge
computing."
March
26: Dr. Fauci
publishes an
editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine
(with senior NIAID official H. Clifford Lane and CDC director
Robert Redfield), stating that,
"the overall clinical
consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of
a severe seasonal influenza," with a case fatality rate of
perhaps 0.1%.
March
27: President
Trump signs the
$2 trillion CARES Act into law.
March
27: Children's
Health Defense publishes its
video and article, "Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 priorities:
therapeutics now or vaccines later?" Shortly thereafter,
Mailchimp
deactivates CHD's account with no advance notice and no
violation of Mailchimp's rules.
March
29: President
Trump extends nationwide social distancing guidelines until
April 30.
March
31: White House
coronavirus advisors Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Fauci cite models
showing a potential
100,000 to 240,000 coronavirus deaths,
"even if the country
keeps stringent social distancing guidelines in place."
Fauci
describes social distancing and lockdowns as "inconvenient" but
"the answer to our problems."
April
2: Bill Gates
states that a coronavirus vaccine "is the
only thing that will allow us to return to normal."
April
3: Forbes
reports that Moderna's CEO has become an
overnight billionaire after the company ended 2019 with a
net loss.
April
6: Dr. Fauci
describes a COVID-19 vaccine as a "showstopper" and states, "I
hope we don't have so many people infected that we actually
have...
herd immunity."
April
9: Dr. Fauci
states that the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus "looks more
like the
60,000 [range]," adding the "models are really only as good
as the assumptions that you put into the model."
April
9: The
Gates-funded Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
reports that
115 COVID-19 vaccines are in the pipeline.
April
9: Children's
Health Defense
publishes "Gates' globalist vaccine agenda: a win-win for
pharma and mandatory vaccination."
April
11: Children's
Health Defense
publishes "Here's why Bill Gates wants indemnity… Are you
willing to take the risk?"
April
15: Bill Gates
pledges another $150 million to coronavirus vaccine development
and other measures. He states, "There are
seven billion people on the planet. We are going to need to
vaccinate nearly every one."
April
16: Moderna
announces up to
$483 million in funding from the Biomedical Advanced
Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to speed up the
mRNA-1273 vaccine's development.
April
18: Professor Luc
Montagnier, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for
his discovery of HIV, appears on French television and states
that SARS-CoV-2 has been "manipulated" to include "added sequences" from HIV.
Professor Montagnier asserts
that this "meticulous" insertion could only have been carried
out in a laboratory.
Others raise similar questions about the origins of
SARS-CoV-2.
April
18: News outlets
report that the country's first coronavirus tests are
ineffective due to
CDC lab contamination and the CDC's violation of its
manufacturing standards.
April
21: Washington
State announces plans to have a 1,500-person
contact tracing team in place by mid-May.
April
23: Researchers
issue a preprint reporting "direct evidence" of
at least 30 different SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants.
April
23: News outlets
report that American billionaires' wealth
increased by 10% during the first few months of COVID-19.
April
23: Children's
Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. publishes "The
Bill Gates effect: WHO's
DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases
it targeted."
April
24: The NIH
cancels the funding awarded to EcoHealth Alliance and the
Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain-of-function research on
coronaviruses (funding awarded continuously since 2015). The NIH
and Dr. Fauci decline to comment.
April
27: Former FDA
head Scott Gottlieb (now with Pfizer) and former
Medicare/Medicaid official Andy Slavitt urge the Trump
administration to dedicate $46 billion to
contact tracing and isolation.
April
28: A Newsweek
article
reports,
"Dr. Fauci backed controversial Wuhan lab with U.S.
dollars for risky coronavirus research."
Fauci does not respond
to requests for comments.
April
29: Bloomberg
publishes a story about President Trump's "Operation Warp
Speed," a planned pharmaceutical-government-military
collaboration to
shrink the development time for a coronavirus vaccine.
April
30: Bill Gates
writes that,
"the world will be able to go back to the way things
were... when
almost every person on the planet has been vaccinated
against coronavirus."
Gates also states that,
"Governments will
need to expedite their usual drug approval processes in order to
deliver the vaccine to over 7 billion people quickly."
April
30: Dr. Fauci
states that it is "doable" to have
hundreds of millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine
available by January 2021.
May 1:
Dr. Thomas
Inglesby (director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health
Security), discussing gain-of-function research, states that,
"laboratory systems are
not infallible, and even in the greatest laboratories of the
world, there are mistakes."
May 1:
Democratic
Representative Bobby Rush of Illinois introduces the
TRACE Act ("HR 6666: COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, and
Contacting Everyone").
The conspicuously vague Act would
allocate $100 billion to CDC-hired entities for contact tracing
and "other purposes," including family separation. (See also May
15.)
May 4:
Bill Gates pledges
another $50 million toward COVID-19, for a total of
$300 million in commitments.
May 4:
President Trump
states that the U.S. will have a coronavirus vaccine
by the end of 2020.
May 5:
British and French
researchers
publish "Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent
mutations in SARS-CoV-2," suggesting that the recurrent
mutations detected "may indicate ongoing adaptation of
SARS-CoV-2 to its novel human host."
May 5:
Neil Ferguson
resigns from the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group
for Emergencies (SAGE) after flouting his own social distancing
rules.
The married lover with whom Ferguson has his trysts works
for an
organization,
"loosely connected with Bill Gates, through the
World Economic Forum."
May 5:
Children's Health
Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. publishes "Redfield
and Birx: can they be trusted with COVID?"
May 6:
An anonymous
software engineer (ex-Google) pronounces Neil Ferguson's
COVID-19 computer model "unusable
for scientific purposes."
May 6:
New York governor Andrew Cuomo announces that the state will
partner with "visionary" Bill Gates to restructure education
by placing "technology at the forefront."
Cuomo appoints former
Google CEO Eric Schmidt to lead a blue-ribbon committee for this
purpose.
Critics push back, describing past
Gates-Foundation-funded educational fiascos that amassed
"detailed personal information about millions of students" in
the cloud.
May 7:
Business
Insider reports that
over 33 million Americans have filed for unemployment over
the seven-week period since COVID-19 restrictions began.
May 7:
NPR reports that
44 states and the District of Columbia have plans to deploy a
contact tracing workforce of
over 66,000 workers.
May 8:
NBC News
releases a private report describing an unconfirmed shutdown of
the Wuhan Institute of Virology in
October 2019.
May 8:
Children's Health
Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dafna Tachover
(director of CHD's "Stop 5G and Wireless Harms Project")
publish "The brave new world of
Bill Gates and Big Telecom."
May 11:
UK chief medical officer Dr. Chris Whitty (an insider who has
received millions in malaria research funding from the Gates
Foundation and who endorses
stigma as a useful public health intervention) states that
COVID-19 is "harmless
to [the] vast majority."
May 13:
Australian
researchers report that "SARS-CoV-2 is uniquely adapted to
infect humans, raising important questions as to whether it
arose in nature by a rare chance event or whether its origins
might lie elsewhere."
May 14:
Microsoft
announces that it is acquiring UK-based
Metaswitch Networks "to expand its Azure 5G strategy."
May 15:
The House passes
the 1,815-page, $3 trillion
HEROES Act ("Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency
Solutions Act"), sneaking in portions of the TRACE ACT that
would funnel
$75 billion to the CDC for "coronavirus testing, contact
tracing and isolation measures."
May 18:
Moderna announces
interim results from the Phase 1 trial of its mRNA-1273
coronavirus vaccine.
The company reports that
three out of 15 healthy participants (20%) experienced Grade
3 systemic adverse events following a second dose.
(The Merck
Manual defines Grade 3 as "severe or medically significant but
not immediately life-threatening; hospitalization or
prolongation of hospitalization indicated; disabling; limiting
self care.")
May 18:
Discussing the
interim results from Moderna's Phase 1 trial of its mRNA-1273
vaccine - co-developed with NIAID - Dr. Fauci states:
"I must
warn that there's also
the possibility of negative consequences, where certain
vaccines can actually enhance the negative effect of the
infection."
May 18:
After describing its interim Phase 1 results as "promising,"
shares of Moderna stock soar 25%, closing at a "record
high."
The company's stock has gained 241% since the
beginning of 2020.
May 19:
Children's Health
Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
publishes "How Bill
Gates controls
global messaging and censorship."
May 20:
Microsoft
announces its new supercomputer intended to create
"human-like" artificial intelligence.
