Bill Gates, Microsoft’s billionaire co-founder, has publicly called for a COVID-19 vaccine, saying President Donald Trump’s “America’s first” approach was “selfish” and that American vaccines have benefited foreign scientists.
Gates underestimated Operation Warp Speed’s role in pushing companies to make an American vaccine safer at the time of registration, saying CNN’s two MRNA vaccines have been “supported for some time” since Sunday. The millionaire said that Pfizer & Gates Foundation partner Bioentech “did not take government money” and that Moderna received financial assistance before Operation Warp Speed was formed, when it was called “Barta” or biomedical advanced research and development.
Gates described how international scientific efforts by German companies and foreign scientists had contributed to the development of the first American vaccine, and that the distribution should be “based on medical need, not wealth.”
“We want the world economy to thrive, we want to reduce deaths. And you know that basic technology is a German company. So blocking international sharing and cooperation is a mistake and enough of all these epidemics,” Gates told the Food and Drug Administration last week. DA) Indicates how the German biotechnology company Bioendech is behind the development of the accredited Covit-19 vaccine.
“We need to increase the efficiency of all vaccines. A few extra months that are easy to measure production will be recognized. But the United States has benefited from the work of other countries here. We should not do that. Be completely selfish in how we progress,” Gates added.
CNN host Jack Topper asked Gates that Trump’s vague management order prioritizing the distribution of vaccines to Americans before other countries is a misguided approach to responding to the epidemic.
“I think we need to help all of humanity here. The serious idea that everyone should die until the last American vaccine is given is not the right answer,” Gates said, adding that he did not believe any vaccine was better. Another.
“I’m very happy with all of these vaccines,” he added, adding that they are made by Pfizer, Moderna and Astrogeneneka.
Biotech CEO, Dr. Ukhur Sahin, who was born in Turkey, said The Wall Street Journal For the past month he has been “in a state of eagerness and focus” as global scientists prepare what’s next in the removal of the corona virus. The previous record for developing a vaccine was four years, but the COVID-19 vaccine, developed in conjunction with his German-based Mainz, was able to develop within a few months.
Gates said there is a “real communication challenge” for the United States and other governments in ensuring that Americans choose to be vaccinated. But he hopes to gradually meet a lower mortality rate and a reduction in the spread of “those you care about,” which will boost confidence in the process.
“For some jobs, such as working in a nursing home, the government can determine that vaccinating those people is important because it will save a lot of lives. So track record will be created, and I think we’ll have to dramatically reduce the spread to more than 70 percent,” Gates said.
Billionaire technology entrepreneurs should exaggerate distribution in helping those in medical need, and not in terms of recipient wealth. Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush. He offered to vaccinate publicly because Bush and Bill Clinton had already said they would do it to strengthen confidence.
“I take the vaccine for granted because I think it is a benefit to all people that it is not contagious,” Gates said.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last week announced an additional $ 250 million in donations to fight COVID-19, more than the $ 1 billion the organization has already put forward in recent months.
Newsweek Gates reached out to the Foundation and the White House Sunday afternoon for further comments on the vaccine release.
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