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Bill Gates’ daughter, Jennifer Gates, a medical student, received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the end of last week and, like many relieved recipients, shared a photo. But Gates also showed that he is well aware of the false conspiracy theories about his father. After expressing how thankful she was for the vaccine, she joked: “PPS, unfortunately, the vaccine did NOT implant my brilliant father in my brain – if mRNA had that power.”
Gates’ father, the co-founder of Microsoft, has worked for years to research and promote vaccines worldwide through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has also become the subject of many truly strange and totally unfounded conspiracy theories, including one that falsely claims that he is promoting the COVID-19 vaccination to inject people with a microchip that will track them.
Jennifer Gates, a sophomore at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, also noted in her post: “I’ll still be wearing my mask (or two!) After receiving my second dose – I hope this is self-explanatory . “Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, recently endorsed the use of a cloth mask over a surgical mask, which the CDC says improves the fit of the surgical mask and therefore offers better protection against the coronavirus.
Jennifer, 24, is the oldest of Bill and Melinda Gates’ three children.
Bill Gates received his first injection of the coronavirus vaccine last month, qualifying for it because he turned 65 in October. Like daughter, like father: He too shared a photo of the happy moment and wrote, “I feel great.”