It probably has to do with the optics of being associated with Bill Gates: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/technology/bill-gates-virus-conspiracy-theories.h

It probably has to do with the optics of being associated with Bill Gates: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/technology/bill-gates-virus-conspiracy-theories.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/technology/bill-gates-vir...