Despite that outfit’s wild exaggeration of COVID-19 mortality early on (which matched the dire forecast by Neil Ferguson’s team at Imperial College London, also funded by Bill Gates), it would be foolish to dismiss this out of hand, since Gates et al. are surely capable of rolling out some other pathogen more lethal than this new coronavirus.
Press release link: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2017/01/IHME-Announcement