The wealthy Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called for global cooperation to ready COVID-19 vaccines for seven billion people, while offering US$150 million toward developing therapeutics and treatments for the virus.
"We are going to need to vaccinate nearly every one. There is no manufacturing capacity to do that."
Much of the money is to support the development of COVID-19 diagnostic tests, therapeutic treatments and vaccines, and to make them globally available, he said.Some is also for helping the poorest countries in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, which lack supplies, equipment and infrastructure to counter the new epidemic.
Some 100 potential vaccines are being developed and tested by scientists around the world, Mr Suzman said.Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda."A successful vaccine has to be available for seven billion people. You need to test if there are unexpected side effects, or side effects within cohorts or groups, whether it's pregnant women or the elderly or the very young," said Mr Suzman.
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