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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a charitable organization launched by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in 2015.
The initiative comes after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched a “Medicare Accelerator Covid-19” project earlier this month, according to AIT NEWS, a technical news website.
The aim of the project is to develop affordable (Covid-19) therapies that can be widely distributed.
The initiative will undertake the task of evaluating existing drugs and reusing their current purposes for treating Covid-19 patients. It is also hoped that accelerator research will be used to combat other viral pathogens in the long term as well, and will cooperate with the World Health Organization.
Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post that evaluation of existing drugs is especially important given that they have already undergone clinical safety trials, and it will be much faster to make them widely available than to develop a new vaccine.
The announcement is one of many efforts by tech giants Silicon Valley to try to help combat the spread of coronavirus, as Amazon and Microsoft have contributed a $ 2.5 million relief fund to spread resources to organizations working with communities affected by the virus outbreak in the Seattle area in Washington state .
Facebook has also launched a $ 100 million program to help small businesses affected by the epidemic, and Apple has said it will donate 10 million protective masks to relief efforts in the United States.
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a charitable organization launched by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in 2015.
The initiative comes after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched a “Medicare Accelerator Covid-19” project earlier this month, according to AIT NEWS, a technical news website.
The aim of the project is to develop affordable (Covid-19) therapies that can be widely distributed.
The initiative will undertake the task of evaluating existing drugs and reusing their current purposes for treating Covid-19 patients. It is also hoped that accelerator research will be used to combat other viral pathogens in the long term as well, and will cooperate with the World Health Organization.
Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post that evaluation of existing drugs is especially important given that they have already undergone clinical safety trials, and it will be much faster to make them widely available than to develop a new vaccine.
The announcement is one of many efforts by tech giants Silicon Valley to try to help combat the spread of coronavirus, as Amazon and Microsoft have contributed a $ 2.5 million relief fund to spread resources to organizations working with communities affected by the virus outbreak in the Seattle area in Washington state .
Facebook has also launched a $ 100 million program to help small businesses affected by the epidemic, and Apple has said it will donate 10 million protective masks to relief efforts in the United States.
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