Amid rising coronavirus cases in the US and other parts of the world, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Sunday (December 13) that the next four to six months could be the worst of the pandemic. of COVID-19. It should be noted that the Gates foundation has been involved in the development and delivery of the COVID-19 vaccines.
“Unfortunately, the next four to six months could be the worst of the pandemic. The IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) forecast shows more than 200,000 additional deaths. If we followed the rules, in terms of wearing masks and not Mix it up, we could prevent a large percentage of those deaths, “Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told CNN.
“I thought the United States would do a better job handling it,” said Gates, who in 2015 had warned that the world would witness a pandemic in the future.
“In general, when I made the forecasts in 2015, I talked about how the deaths could be higher. So this virus could be more fatal than it is. We didn’t get the worst case scenario. But what has surprised me is that the economic impact in the United States and around the world has been much greater than the forecasts I made five years ago, “he said.
More than 290,000 people have died in the US from COVID-19 so far.
According to Gates, his Foundation has been funding various research for vaccines. “We are very agile. We are partners in something called CEPI, which is the second largest donor after the United States government,” he said.
“So in diagnostics, therapy and vaccines, we know where the science is, we know how the pieces need to come together urgently. And so our experience in infectious diseases, which normally only relates to developing countries, is it applies to the whole world because of this crisis, “he added.
“We want the global economy to work. We want to minimize deaths. And, you know, the core technology is a German company. So blocking international exchange and cooperation has been disruptive and a mistake throughout this pandemic. It needs to increase. the capacity of all vaccines. There will be some additional ones approved in the coming months that are easier to scale up manufacturing. But the US has benefited from other countries’ “attention on the job”, and we shouldn’t be completely selfish. how we move forward, “Gates said.
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