NSTworld: The wealthy Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called Wednesday for global cooperation to ready COVID19 vaccines for seven billion people. coronavirus BillGates MelindaGates
While it is likely to take as many as 18 months to develop and fully test a safe coronavirus vaccine, global authorities and businesses need to start now on plans to manufacture it, said foundation chief executive Mark Suzman.“When you are dealing with a novel pathogen like COVID-19, as and when we get to identifying a successful vaccine, we are going to need billions of doses.”
Suzman announced the foundation, started and controlled by mega-billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates, is adding US$150 million to the US$100 million it announced in February to help in international efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic. A patient infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 receives treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital de Clinicas, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. - AFP
“The vast majority of vaccine candidates fail in those larger trials, the so-called phase-three trials.” He said both China and the United States have to be part of the joint effort, as well as the World Health Organization. On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said he was cutting off US funds for the WHO.
Medical staff take care of a Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit at the University hospital of Aachen, western Germany. - AFP
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