This is Business Daily with me Vivian Nunes.

Coming up, billionaires fighting the coronavirus.

We'll hear how some of the world's richest people are digging deep during the pandemic.

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, there have been some big names here,

but there's a lot of billionaires that

haven't made any significant gifts. Should people give just because they're rich? And who decides

what the money is spent on? How comfortable should we be with billionaires already funding medical

research, taking on an even bigger role in global public health.

We don't want to leave ourselves in a position of newfound dependence upon philanthropists

to do things that we think we ought to be doing collectively.

That's all coming up here on Business Daily from the BBC.

The coronavirus pandemic is not only deadly, it's expensive.

Governments around the world have shelled out trillions

to deal with the health emergency brought on by COVID-19

and the economic crisis caused by trying to contain it.

But there are shortfalls, not enough protective gear for health staff, too few ICU units,

and millions of unemployed people struggling to buy food. So if central banks and governments are

finding it hard to manage this crisis, what help is there? Step forward, the billionaires. Well,

some of them. The billionaires of the world are sitting on trillions of dollars.

Just in the United States alone, the 700 or so billionaires in this country,

before the market crashed, had about $3 trillion in assets.

So if anybody has a little extra change sitting around to help

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