It must be worked intensively on its development so that a “capacity of billions of cans” is available as quickly as possible, said Microsoft founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Sunday “Fox News”. A regular vaccine is not expected until next year at the earliest.
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“We’re all in the same boat here,” said Gates. Rich countries like the US could sooner or later contain the virus, but if it spreads to poorer countries, it would come back to the US, he warned.
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“We have to defeat the virus all over the world,” he said. In the long term, this would only be possible with an effective vaccine for everyone in the world. Until then, life cannot return to normal: “It is fair to say that things will not really become normal until we have a vaccine,” said Gates.
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Construction of vaccine factories
Gates had called on the US government on Thursday to build factories to produce the currently tested vaccines. Some of these would never be needed, which would put billions of dollars in the sand.
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That’s why no private company can take such a risk, Gates argued. But this is the only way to ensure immediate mass production of an approved vaccine.
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The Gates Foundation, which primarily funds health programs, has already provided $ 105 million to fight the coronavirus pandemic. According to US researchers, there are already 1.2 million known infections with the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 worldwide, which can trigger the lung disease Covid-19. (kes / SDA)
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