Highlights:
- Epstein was Pandemic Puppeteer, Gates The Puppet & WHO/CDC were the Pawns?
- WHO runs another simulation Pandemic Exercise – rehearsing the next Pandemic?
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Dr. Amitav Banerjee, Chairperson of the Universal Health Organisation (UHO), has raised alarm over recent revelations from the Epstein files, which suggest potential collusion between Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates, and global health bodies like the WHO and CDC in orchestrating pandemic preparedness measures years before COVID-19. The UHO newsletter underscores the need for an independent inquiry to preserve public trust in these institutions while critiquing skewed health budget allocations favoring private interests over equitable healthcare.
Epstein was Pandemic Puppeteer, Gates The Puppet & WHO/CDC were the Pawns?
Among the volumes and volumes of the Epstein Files, some information which are coming out raises concern about Global Health. The foremost is the Covid-19 pandemic which some experts had called out as a “false alarm.” The draconic restrictive measures consequent to declaration of the pandemic such as lockdowns, travel restrictions, closure of business and schools, mask mandates and subsequently vaccine mandates, led to massive economic losses, job losses, educational setbacks, human rights violations and huge profits for the pharmaceutical and other industries which benefited from these unscientific measures.
Was there any method in this madness? The Epstein files provide a clue if some email exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein, the perverted sex offender, and Bill Gates, one of the largest donor to the WHO, comes out to be true. It has emerged that Epstein discussed a pandemic long before the coronavirus began to spread with an unidentified person.
Documents on Epstein that the U.S. Department of Justice released last week included an email titled “Preparing for pandemics” that an unidentified person sent to Epstein on Mar. 20, 2015.
In the email, the unidentified person told Epstein, “As requested, I’m attaching a draft agenda for a pandemic preparedness meeting,” and said, “Let’s discuss next steps, including how to formally involve the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).”
In connection with this, there was also a claim that the person Epstein discussed pandemic preparedness with was Microsoft (MS) founder Bill Gates. The influential Russian daily Izvestia reported on the 4th (local time), “The Epstein files contained discussions between Epstein and Bill Gates on pandemic modeling and biomedical projects.” On that basis, it argued that the unidentified person who emailed Epstein in 2015 was likely Bill Gates.
According to the report, a 2017 letter was first sent to Bill Gates by someone and then forwarded to Epstein. The letter included concepts for large-scale disease outbreak scenarios, research in the field of neurotechnology, and simulations of the possibility of a global spread of infectious diseases.
Izvestia said, “Such discussions on pandemic scenarios took place years before the emergence of COVID-19.” COVID-19 was first reported in late Dec. 2019 in Wuhan, China.
In one of the mails, Bill Gates had written to Epstein, “Preparing for Pandemics…” Let us discuss the next steps, for example how to officially involve the WHO and the CDC…I hope we can pull this off…”
As a watchdog, UHO recommends that a full independent inquiry is carried out on these exchanges to establish their authenticity as the credibility of the august body like the WHO is at stake. Bill Gates is the highest private donor to the WHO.
WHO runs another simulation Pandemic Exercise – rehearsing the next Pandemic?
“Event 201,” was conducted in October 2019, just a few months before the real pandemic hit us. This was hosted and supervised by philanthropist and amateur doctor Bill Gates specifically for bio-security functionaries associated with governments and government and non-government agencies.
The “war-game” consisted of four “tabletop” simulations of a worldwide coronavirus pandemic. Participants included high ranking members from the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg/John Hopkins University Population Centre, the CDC, various media houses, the Chinese government, a former CIA director, vaccine makers, finance and bio-security industry, and the president of Edelman, the world’s leading PR firm.
Event 201 was touted as a drill for “governments in waiting”. The participants would orchestrate the pandemic response discussed at the drill barely a few months later. The participants at the drill role-played members of a Pandemic Control Council, war-gaming a contagion. Drills included an array of psychological warfare techniques for pushing the official narrative, censoring dissent besides mask and vaccine mandates. It planned extending government’s authoritarian powers, extending draconian lockdowns, suspension of individual rights of assembly, free speech and fear mongering to ensure mass compliance.
Strangely, Gates later denied that Event 201 took place. In a statement to the BBC, he said, “Now here we are. We didn’t simulate this; we didn’t practise this, so in both health policies and economic policies, we find ourselves in uncharted territory.” This denial is hard to swallow as videos of the event are available!
The denial actually fuelled suspicion around Event 201 and led to conspiracy theories. Some of these conspiracy theories suggested that the organisers of the event had prior knowledge of the Covid-19 virus, and that the ensuing pandemic a few months later was not a coincidence. The pandemic, according to some of these conspiracy theorists, was engineered to enable vaccine manufacturers to reap windfall profit.
The pandemic simulation exercise, “Event 201” taken in the context of the leaked communications between Epstein and Gates, about planning future pandemics by influencing the WHO and CDC, appears sinister in retrospect.
What is disturbing given this backdrop is that the WHO has again run a pandemic simulation exercise named CRYSTAL in which 31 countries took part.
The exercise was organized through WHO’s Western Pacific Regional Office and conducted under the International Health Regulations, the binding framework that governs how countries notify WHO and respond to public health emergencies with cross-border implications.
WHO states that participants included not only national health ministries, but also officials responsible for points of entry, border coordination, and government communications. In practice, the same systems used during real emergencies – airports, ports, interagency coordination channels – were activated for the simulation.
WHO’s own description emphasizes that CRYSTAL was designed to test how countries would function during an unfolding outbreak, not after the fact. The organization highlighted “real-time information sharing,” “multisectoral coordination,” and decision-making under pressure as core elements of the exercise.
The framing is notable. WHO did not describe the drill as preparation for a hypothetical scenario. It repeatedly referred to readiness for “the next pandemic.”
We only hope that this simulation exercise does not herald another pandemic like Event 201.
Health Budget: Health Sector continues to get neglected.
The Finance Minister has made some interesting announcements in her Union Budget Speech. Given that there is an increasing need for care work to cater to growing elderly population, the proposal to create a cadre of 1.5 lakh Allied Health Professionals and caregivers is welcome.
A major highlight of the Budget is the launch of the Biopharma SHAKTI initiative, backed by a ₹10,000 crore outlay over five years. This initiative aims to strengthen domestic production of biologics and biosimilars, supported by the establishment of three new National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs) and the upgradation of seven existing institutes. Complementing this, the creation of a national network of 1,000 accredited clinical trial sites is expected to enhance India’s clinical research ecosystem, accelerate innovation, and position the country as a global hub for ethical, high-quality clinical trials. Regulatory capacity will also be strengthened through enhancements to the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), helping reduce drug approval timelines and improve patient access to advanced therapies.
However, when we review the actual allocation commitments there is nothing much to cheer. In nominal terms there is some increase in the total allocation of Ministry of Health and AYUSH taken together compared to the previous budget. Allocation has increased from Rs 1,03,851 (2025-26 budget) crore to Rs 1,10,939 crore (2026-27 budget).
Though this appears a significant increase in nominal terms, if we adjust for the effect of inflation this means an increase of 3.5% in real terms. Moreover, in real terms this is less than what was spent in 2020-21. This means, the care that could be provided in 2020-21 cannot be ensured now, given that allocations have declined while prices have skyrocketed.
If we dissect the health budget, we find that schemes that contribute to strengthening the public health system and protecting the health of the most vulnerable sections of society like the National Health Mission, and Pradhan Swasthya Suraksha Yogana (PMSSY), schemes on nutrition received severe cuts – despite doing good work during hard times.
On the other hand, schemes to promote commercial interests, like the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), the Digital Health Mission, are being rewarded with higher allocations, despite performing badly.
UHO thinks that the National Health Mission (NHM) is the key program through which the Union Government intervenes in improving primary and secondary health care, maternal and child health, disease control programs and non-communicable diseases. Since 2021-22 there is a steep decline of 8% of the NHM budget in real terms in 2026-27 health budget.
It is also important to note that for many years the actual expenditure in NHM remains higher than what gets allocated indicating that there is a higher demand for NHM funds. The consequence would be that with reduced allocation in the NHM funds, essential primary health care like safe deliveries, child nutrition and immunization, early treatment of TB would not be adequately addressed with the reduced funding.
NHM money is also utilized for remuneration of ASHA the backbone of community health care. They have been demanding a decent minimum wages for quite some time. We need to expand the network of health and wellness centers to ensure quality primary health care. With the reduced funding of the NHM these will also get compromised.
PMJAY seems to be the favourite program of the government, even though it fails to deliver. PMJAY benefits the private sector and excludes the most marginalized population. However, it is given higher allocations in the budget.
In the 2026-27 budget estimate PMJAY has been granted a whopping 36% increase compared to the previous year.
UHO expresses its concern on this blind obsession with commercial interests in the health budget. It is common knowledge that people do not get fully free care under PMJAY and end up paying considerable amounts from their pockets.
The proposal to develop medical tourism hubs under public private partnerships will also use public resources to privatise healthcare, this time to serve the rich from other countries and allow the private sector to make huge profits. Instead of promoting the private sector at public cost, the government should strengthen the public health system which caters to the poor and the marginalized.
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