{"id":209495,"date":"2020-06-28T08:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209495"},"modified":"2020-06-30T06:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:50:35","slug":"bill-gates-explains-the-final-hurdle-to-a-coronavirus-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209495","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates explains the \u2018final hurdle\u2019 to a coronavirus vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jacob Siegal \u2013 BGR June 27, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Bill Gates said in an interview with <\/strong><em><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/em><strong> this week that the \u201cfinal hurdle\u201d for a coronavirus vaccine will be getting enough people to actually take it when it\u2019s ready.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Gates agrees with Dr. Fauci that a vaccine will be ready in late 2020 or early 2021.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>As long as 70-80% of people take the vaccine, we can reach herd immunity.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_205266\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bill-gates-vaccine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205266\" class=\"wp-image-205266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bill-gates-vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bill-gates-vaccine.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bill-gates-vaccine-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-205266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Gates, Co-Chair the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation shows a vaccine during a press conference.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In all likelihood, there will be a vaccine for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. We have no idea how effective it will be, or how long any immunity it provides will last, but NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci said in front of Congress just this week that a vaccine<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2020\/06\/23\/coronavirus-vaccine-2020-fauci-optimistic-phase-3-human-trials\/\">could be ready to roll out to the public by late 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. But that\u2019s just one hurdle that needs to be overcome, as Bill Gates reminded Americans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/25\/us\/bill-gates-coronavirus-town-hall-us\/index.html\">in an interview with <em>CNN<\/em> this week<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that once a safe and effective vaccine is ready, people need to actually use it, which he calls the \u201cfinal hurdle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Bill Gates appeared alongside Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta in a Coronavirus Town Hall on <em>CNN<\/em> this week to discuss America\u2019s response to the pandemic. He said the picture globally and in the US is even \u201cmore bleak\u201d than he expected it to be in late June, and cautioned that it could still get worse in the fall. He also made it clear that the US wasn\u2019t doing enough to combat the virus, even though testing has finally ramped up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIt\u2019s possible to ramp up testing for a new pathogen very, very fast,\u201d Bill Gates noted. \u201cIn fact, a number of countries did that extremely well in this case and the technology keeps getting better there. The US in particular hasn\u2019t had the leadership messages or coordination that you would have expected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some states have shown just how much of a difference can be made by simply following the guidelines set by the CDC and the WHO. In New York, which was at one point the epicenter of the global crisis, the percentage of positive cases hasn\u2019t been above 2% since June 1st. Meanwhile, Texas is dialing back its reopening and shutting down bars as the positivity rate has spiked above 10% with tens of thousands of cases reported this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But a vaccine will undoubtedly change everything, and Gates is on the same page as Fauci in his belief that one will be available by the end of 2020 or in early 2021. According to the WHO, there are more than 140 vaccines currently in development, and as we have reported in recent weeks, some are already approaching Phase 3 trials. But Gates believes that the biggest hurdle isn\u2019t developing or distributing the vaccine \u2014 it\u2019s convincing people to use it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If it\u2019s a great vaccine, including the transmission blocking, everyone will benefit from the fact that 70 to 80% of the people will take the vaccine,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should be able to get herd immunity if you get up to that level, so it really could then \u2014 really exponentially \u2014 drop the numbers.\u201d But with the extraordinarily accelerated trial period, it will be \u201ca challenge to get that safety database to build up the confidence\u201d of the people. Nevertheless, he thinks that most people will take the vaccine, or at least enough to start inching our way back to normalcy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2020\/06\/27\/bill-gates-coronavirus-vaccine-final-hurdle\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018final hurdle\u2019, says Gates, will be in convincing people to get vaccinated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209497,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209495\/revisions\/209497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}