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At a time when vaccine approval and subsequent vaccination are on the agenda, many are wondering when the world will return to normal, although experts warn that further precautionary measures are needed over the next year.
While it’s still difficult to set a deadline, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates estimated in an interview on the show Today gives NBC that America could be “on the way” to the old normal in the spring of 2021.
“The next four or five months look quite gloomy, unless we can reinforce our behavior,” Gates said, knowing that the data from his country is very worrying, among other things because this Thursday the United States exceeded 14 million infections. and broke the daily record for deaths: 3000.
Bill Gates asks people to avoid gatherings and wear a mask anywhere they may be exposed outside the home.
In addition to various vaccines, Bill Gates is optimistic about advances in treatments such as those made with monoclonal antibodies (which act to mimic the immune system’s ability to fight viruses).
“In the spring, these resources will be large enough that in the United States they begin to change dramatically and return to normal,” he said.
It should be noted that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have already applied for approval and emergency use to the Food and Drug Administration to prevent the pandemic from progressing as quickly as possible. In the United Kingdom authorization has already been obtained this Wednesday.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo explained Wednesday that he expects to vaccinate about 170,000 people by December 15.
In the same wave of optimism, America’s leading infectious disease specialist, Anthony Fauci, believes healthy young people will be vaccinated in April.
The bad news is that large numbers of people don’t want to get vaccinated. By one estimate, 42% of the US population does not want to be vaccinated. For this reason, former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton have already offered to get vaccinated in front of the cameras, in order to raise public awareness that the vaccine is safe.
Bill Gates remains “hopeful” that more and more people will decide to get vaccinated next year. The Microsoft co-founder guarantees that “more news about a lot of people having a good experience and [uma vacina] being able to help not die “will make citizens end up choosing to take the doses necessary for the treatment to take effect and create group immunity -“ which, according to Fauci, will be achieved when between 75% and 85% of Americans are vaccinated.
