- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to financially support development of low-cost and easier to deliver treatments and vaccines
- Gates Foundation so far has spent $1.75billion to fight the pandemic
- Latest contribution, the foundation’s largest to date, will pay for delivery of tests and vaccines in US, but also in low- and middle-income countries
- In a recent interview, Bill Gates predicted the US will be ‘headed back to normal’ by spring, after enduring four or five ‘grim months’
Snejana Farberov for Daily Mail and Reuters — Daily Mail Dec 12, 2020
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday pledged an additional $250million in the fight against COVID-19 by funding the development of low-cost and easier to deliver treatments and vaccines.
The announcement was made just days after Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates expressed confidence that thanks to the anticipated rollout of at least two promising vaccines, the United States could be returning ‘back to normal’ by next spring.
As of Friday afternoon, the coronavirus pandemic has claimed 1.59million lives worldwide, including more than 292,000 in the United States.
The Gates Foundation’s latest contribution, its largest to date, comes on top of the $70million funding that it added in November. This brings the organization’s total commitments to the global pandemic response to $1.75billion, the foundation said.
‘Whether (the world) gets better for everyone depends on the actions of the world’s leaders and their commitment to deliver tests, treatments and vaccines to the people who need them,’ said Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation.
The contribution will also support the delivery of tests and vaccines in low- and middle-income countries, the foundation added.
In an interview with Savannah Guthrie on NBC’s Today Show last week, Bill Gates, 65, warned that the situation could get worse before it gets better, and urged people to brace for a dark COVID winter.
‘The next four or five months actually look pretty grim, unless we can really double down on our behavior,’ Gates said.
He stressed that ‘the most impactful thing’ that people can do at this time to help stop the spread of the virus is to wear masks and avoid being around large groups of people.
Gates sounded optimistic when discussing some of the antibody treatments and ‘amazing vaccines’ that have been developed and tested over the past few months.
‘By the spring, those numbers [of vaccinated people] will be big enough that, certainly in the United States, it’ll start to change for us dramatically, and we’ll be headed headed back to normal,’ he predicted.
Britain became the first country on Tuesday to roll out a COVID-19 vaccine with a 90-year-old grandmother receiving the first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Canada approved the same vaccine on Wednesday, while an independent expert committee convened by the FDA on Thursday voted 17 in favor, four against, with one abstention, on approving Pfizer’s vaccine.
However, Pfizer’s vaccine does face challenges, especially in the lower-income countries because of its ultra-cold storage requirements. It must be shipped and stored at minus 94 degrees.
‘We have new drugs and more potential vaccines than we could have expected at the start of the year. But these innovations will only save lives if they get out into the world,’ said Gates.
Drugmaker Moderna Inc, which has said its vaccine is 94.5 per cent effective in an interim analysis, has already applied for authorization in the US and European Union.
Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported on Friday that President Donald Trump’s White House told the head of the FDA to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid vaccine by the end of the or resign.
The threat came on the same day Trump tweeted that the FDA was a ‘big, old, slow turtle’ and told its commissioner, Stephen Hahn, to ‘Get the dam(n) vaccines out NOW.’
The report followed comments by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar earlier in the day that the United States could start injecting the first Americans with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by Monday.
Alex Azar told news channels that final details were being ironed out, after an expert committee voted to green light the two-dose regimen for people aged 16 and over on an emergency basis.
Next week, an FDA committee will meet to consider a second vaccine, developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health.
Both frontrunner vaccines are based on new messenger RNA technology, which have never been approved before but could potentially revolutionize the field.
The US hopes to immunize 20 million people this month, 100 million by either February or March, and the whole population by June.
Long-term care facility residents and health care workers are at the front of the line.
Here is a guy that has been talking for ages about reducing the world population by means of vaccination and other medical interventions, how duplicitous is he trying to make us believe that he wants to save humanity from Corona Virus when we know for a fact he means the opposite.Gates is a liar, deceiver and mass murdering psychopath.Nothing more nothing less.His windows operating system alone killed millions globally as it drove people to suicidal frustration. Now we must take his vax cause he says so,Fuck you Gates.
Bill, you are really something. You are a true genius longed to be remembered as one of the founding fathers of the New World Order. Maybe the cabal will give you a nice costume and some badges like the one Klaus Schwab wore a few weeks on Youtube addressing the rabble. We hear your appeal for help in your wonderful humanitarian work to save the planet from ourselves, to make profits for yourself and Microsoft, and I guess the best way for us to help is to hold out our arms for your death and infertility serums, and for that Microsoft chip implant to chain us to your new AI control grids.
The fact is Bill, Malinda, your Foundation and Microsoft are parties to the entire Covid scam. Not only are you and your Nazi friends anxious to depopulate the earth leaving only your chosen behind with enough serfs to do the remaining grunt work to serve your royal asses, but you envision every surviving mind being networked to your control AI control grids. Finally, we see the globalist connection, the Great Reset of unity between the few and the many, the marriage between the 20th century Nazi establishment and the 20th Marxist establishment – the totalitarian, international Marxist socialist movement in nuptials with the totalitarian, autocratic, monopolistic Nazi multinational corporations – all living in consummated bliss under the guidance and protection of the international banking cartel. On one hand, your new technocratic globalist system will preserve industries and vast wealth for the elites like yourself, and on the other hand it will give humanity the communist Mass Mind so long promised by Marxist thinkers.
But, hey Bill, you forgot about the people – the 6 billion of us you want to cull. Few of us want any of this crap. What’s wrong? Can’t you see that each of us is a child of God with a chance of being spiritually enlightened from within and directly from Him, for the betterment of all and for eternal life, and that all of your means and ends are only designed to either end our existences or enslave us to you and the other elites, playing god? What’s wrong Bill? Are you afraid of real freedom? Are you afraid of real justice? Are you not afraid of divine justice in your own end? If not, you ought to be.
Don’t worry, deranged mongrel Marrano Jews like Gates, are committed & dedicated to ensuring the goyim live long, healthy, happy lives..
Commenters would make life a lot easier for the reader if they slowed down a bit, to iron out all the mistakes and spend a few seconds trying to locate the right word or idiom. Half the time I do not do the piece the honour of getting to the end. Americans in particular seem to think a brave shot- in- the- dark at human language is sufficient.