The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave more money from 2018-2019 to the World Health Organization than any entity except the U.S. government, who recently cut ties with the organization.
Facebook posts, shared thousands of times, claim Melinda Gates has said black people must be vaccinated first for COVID-19, after health care workers. Though Gates did argue that African-Americans, second to health care workers, should be given priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine once it is available, she did not say that they “must be vaccinated first.” The headline and its interpretation on Facebook is misleading.