Founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates re-delivered the prediction that the vaccine corona virus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) will be available in late 2020 or early 2021.
Gates also touched on the issue of scientists now do not have much time to test the vaccine to various age groups. This is due to the limited testing time due to the increasingly urgent needs.
Thus, according to him, this is a challenge for medical staff.
He also alluded to some scientific evidence that shows that a person recovering from Covid-19 has a fairly strong antibody or immunity.
“We should be able to get herd immunity. So it exponentially decreases the number (decreases in the Covid-19 case),” Gates told CNN.
Previously, Gates said there were two characteristics of the vaccine being evaluated to prevent corona virus infection. First, the characteristics of a vaccine that can prevent someone from being exposed to the new corona virus. Then a vaccine that allows someone exposed to Covid-19 does not infect other people.
Specifically with the second vaccine characteristic, Gates said, the vaccine could not guarantee that it would completely inhibit the transmission of the corona virus.
“If it is a great vaccine, including blocking its transmission, all will benefit that 70 to 80 percent of people will use the vaccine,” said one US billionaire.
Gates Said The United States Is Not Ready
During an interview session Gates said that the current corona virus pandemic was getting worse. He also quipped that the US did not have many ways to fight this virus.
“It is possible to increase testing for new pathogens very quickly. In fact a number of countries are very good at this and the technology continues to improve,” Gates said.
“The US in particular does not yet have the coordination you expect,” he concluded.
The Covid-19 case in the United States exceeded 2.5 million cases on Sunday (28/6), making the country’s economic recovery efforts backward after a surge in cases occurred in Florida.
The US is still the country with the largest number of Covid-19 cases, one third of all cases in the world. Until now, there were 9.9 million cases of Covid-19 occur in the world.
Regarding vaccines, the social foundation founded by Gates and his wife, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently added about US $ 1.6 billion to develop the Covid-19 vaccine.
So far Gates has invested a total of US $ 5.7 billion in vaccine, hoping to save 8 million lives.
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