Bill Gates visited 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Thursday night to discuss a possible timeline for a COVID-19 vaccine
Colbert starts off the interview by asking a question that’s on all of our minds: How long will we have to live the way we are now?
Ever the pragmatist, Gates offered up a measured response: “There are two ways out, one is if we get miracle therapeutics that are greater than 95% cure rate. We can’t count on that. The other is a vaccine that’s highly effective that we get out to the world population. Some of these vaccines — we’ll understand by this summer, we’ll see because they’re going into humans now — we’ll see if they get this strong antibody response.
He allows that if it’s harder to land on an effective vaccine, the timeline could stretch to two years, but offers up a ray of hope: “Every day when I see the engagement of the vaccine groups, I actually think, ‘Wow, we can surprise people on the upside here.’ I have been saying 18 months, but some of these vaccines are ahead of that schedule.”
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