Bill Gates says the world would need as many as 14 billion doses of a coronavirus vaccine to stop the virus
Bill Gates believes we may eventually need to produce as many as 14 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines globally and that we're anywhere from nine months to two years away from making that happen.Thursday, the billionaire Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist outlined what the race for a vaccine could look like, including how long and what it will take to develop one that's both safe and effective, how it will be produced, and who should get it first.
"We need to manufacture and distribute at least seven billion doses of the vaccine," Gates said, "or possibly 14 billion, if it's a multi-dose vaccine." He added that the vaccines should be distributed "as soon as the first batch is ready to go." After healthcare workers, people in low-income countries should be first in line for a vaccine when it's ready since, Gates argued. Higher rates of underlying health conditions, worse healthcare systems, and high population densities that make social distancing measures harder to implement will allow the disease to spread more easily, he said.
Gates said there will be massive challenges in developing a safe and effective vaccine, as well as producing, storing, and distributing them on such a large scale, and that it will require extensive global cooperation but, said: "I know it'll get done. There's simply no alternative." "Humankind has never had a more urgent task than creating broad immunity for coronavirus," he said. "We need to make billions of doses, we need to get them out to every part of the world, and we need all of this to happen as quickly as possible.
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