Bill Gates talks about COVID-19 vaccine
In an interview on the 26th, Bill Gates said that if everything goes well, the COVID-19 vaccine will be able to be produced on a large scale within one year, but "it may not be possible, and it will take 2 years." Regarding the so-called "China Responsibility Theory", he said that this is not the time to say this, because it is not helpful to deal with the current epidemic situation. "China did a lot of right things when the epidemic broke out ... Sadly, even the United States, which you think can respond well to the epidemic, is particularly poor."
On March 19th, according to foreign media reports, recently co-founder Bill Gates (Bill Gates) who recently resigned from the board of directors of Microsoft recently participated in an online answering event on Reddit and talked about many questions about COVID-19.
During the online answering activity, Bill Gates stated that China has provided very valuable experience in this epidemic. Effective measures such as isolation have been adopted to significantly reduce the number of infection cases. He predicts that the epidemic may last up to 10 weeks. If the correct actions are taken within 6 to 10 weeks, including detection and isolation, rich countries should be able to avoid high levels of infection.
It is reported that Bill Gates and his foundation have been preparing for a pandemic similar to the COVID-19 epidemic for many years. His TED speech in 2015 was especially prescient, when he wrote a detailed article for The New England Journal Of Medicine, detailing the lessons we should learn from the Ebola outbreak . The Gates Foundation also participated in the creation of the 2017 Epidemic Prevention Innovation Center. Bill Gates said his retirement from the Microsoft Board of Directors had nothing to do with the epidemic, but it did strengthen his decision to focus on the foundation's work, including the foundation's work to help respond to the outbreak.
"The COVID-19 pandemic is a nightmare scene", Bill Gates yelled that the United States is studying China
"Basically, the entire country must take the measures taken before those infected (case) areas in China." Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation of America, appeared on the CNN TV program on the evening of March 26. With such a call, the United States learns China. He criticized that in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the US response was slow and chaotic
It is reported that Gates participated in the CNN "Global City Hall" program that night to discuss the COVID-19 epidemic and the measures required. "This is a nightmarish scene," he described when talking about the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response to the current epidemic situation, Gates warned on the show that it is "unrealistic" to return to normal life, work or social gatherings in April. He said that the United States should adopt stricter blockade measures to prevent the virus from further spreading infection and death.
Regarding the measures taken by various countries in the face of the epidemic, Gates said bluntly that other countries have done better than the United States. He said that those countries that were hit by the SARS virus in 2003 "have performed best during this (response) pandemic (epidemic) because they responded when the number of cases was very, very small." "
Immediately afterwards, he added that, on the contrary, the US response was slow and chaotic. He said that if we "behaved a little bit like those countries that have done the best in this regard", we will be better off now.
"Basically, the entire country has to take the measures that China has taken before those infected (case) areas." Gates said.