Bill Gates warns about the biggest mistake we can make fighting the coronavirus

[Chris Smith]

• Coronavirus vaccines and drugs that can cure COVID-19 should go to the people who need them most, not the “highest bidder,” Bill Gates says.
• The billionaire who pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to COVID-19 research said the pandemic will be “longer, more unjust,” and “deadlier” if the drugs do not reach the places they’re needed most.

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has been fighting the novel coronavirus from the early days of the pandemic. He tried to warn the world back in 2015 about what a pandemic could do to the modern world if countries fail to take preventive measures. When COVID-19 hit, he began funding several research projects via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. That included vaccine research, with Bill Gates laying out his vision for developing preventive drugs as fast as possible. The billionaire said it’s advisable to kickstart massive manufacturing efforts for vaccine candidates before they’re authorized for use, in a bid to fast-track deployment. The financial risk is worth it, he said at the time.

Gates explained several weeks ago how he thought vaccine deployment should work once the drugs are approved. He made it clear that it will take years to immunize the world’s population. Getting vaccine candidates to market as soon as possible would not guarantee worldwide access right away, and that’s because it’s impossible to meet all the demand at once. Since then, vaccine development advanced to late-stage trials for several promising candidates, some of which could be available in certain countries as soon as late 2020. But Gates now warns about the biggest mistake we could make once we can start using these vaccines to fight the coronavirus.

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