Claim: A Facebook post has claimed Chris Whitty received £40 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Fact-check: Chris Whitty did not personally receive millions of pounds from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not true. professor whitty was working at the london school of hygiene & tropical medicine when they received a large grant, $40 million of which went to a group of malaria research bodies of which he was director and principal investigator.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Rachael Krishna
Date published: 2020-06-03T00:00:00