{"id":25725,"date":"2022-05-11T10:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T10:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=25725"},"modified":"2022-05-11T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:53:23","slug":"25725","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/25725","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates says he has COVID, experiencing mild symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk:<\/p>\n<p>According to Associated Press (AP), Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire philanthropist said he will isolate himself until he is again healthy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m fortunate to be vaccinated and boosted and have access to testing and great medical care,\u201d Gates wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;ve tested positive for COVID. I&#39;m experiencing mild symptoms and am following the experts&#39; advice by isolating until I&#39;m healthy again.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Gates (@BillGates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillGates\/status\/1524142708628934656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates has been a vocal proponent of pandemic mitigation measures, specifical access to vaccines and medication for poorer countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Gates Foundation in October said it will spend $120 million to boost access to generic versions of drug maker Merck\u2019s antiviral COVID-19 pill for lower-income countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk: According to Associated Press (AP), Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms. The billionaire philanthropist said he will isolate himself until he is again healthy. \u201cI\u2019m fortunate to be vaccinated and boosted and have access to testing and great medical care,\u201d Gates wrote. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25736,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725\/revisions\/25736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}