Watch Bill Gates respond to Laura Ingraham's COVID lies Written by Media Matters Staff Published 01/27/21 7:01 PM EST Video file Citation From the January 27, 2021, edition of MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber BILL GATES (GUEST): Contact tracing was incredibly beneficial in places like South Korea and we'd have hundreds of thousands of people alive today in the U.S. if we had done that. The data, you don’t actually have to give up your personal data that’s not a fair way of describing it.