Key Words: Bill Gates says Trump’s partial travel ban made the coronavirus pandemic worse

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‘We created this rush, and we didn’t have the ability to test or quarantine those people.’

That’s billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft MSFT, -1.24% co-founder Bill Gates explaining in a “Fox News Sunday” interview how President Trump’s partial travel ban on China and later other countries may have actually worsened the coronavirus outbreak.

“So [the ban] seeded the disease here,” Gates told Fox host Chris Wallace. “You know, the ban probably accelerated that, the way it was executed.”