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“This year has been devastating,” Gates said on his 2020 blog, noting that the Corona epidemic has claimed 1.6 million lives and caused trillions of dollars in economic loss.
He recalled that this year the United States witnessed the assassinations of George Floyd and Briona Taylor, forest fires and a presidential election “like no other”, which contributed to the increase in tensions in the country.
But he said: “There is good news in 2021”, referring to “progress in the development and distribution of vaccines against the Corona virus.”
Gates said that “humans have not made more progress in fighting any disease in one year than the world has achieved this year,” as scientists were able to develop several effective vaccines, while vaccine development usually take up to 10 years.
Bill Gates predicted that the “Modern” and “Pfizer” vaccines will have an impact on a global scale in 2021, and that the number of deaths and infections from Coronavirus in rich countries will decrease, and that “life will be closer to normal. compared to what it is now. “
He also hoped that tests to detect the Corona virus would be faster, more effective, accurate and more comfortable, and that their results would be obtained in 15 minutes.
Turning to another challenge, which is climate change, he expressed optimism about it, hoping that the Biden administration will “restore to the United States a leadership role” in the fight against climate change.
He also noted that “the United Nations will host in November 2021 a meeting of world leaders to discuss the issue of climate change, which will be the largest since the 2015 Paris Climate Summit.”
He said: “I hope there will be positives over the next 12 months, which may not be great, but it will be a tangible step forward” compared to 2020.
