At a time when vaccine approval and subsequent vaccination is on the agenda, many are wondering when the world will return to normal, even though experts warn that it is necessary to continue taking precautionary measures over the next year.
While it is still difficult to set a deadline, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates estimated in an interview on the show Today gives NBC that the United States could “be on the road” to the old normal in the spring of 2021.
“The next four or five months look pretty bleak, unless we can reinforce our behavior,” commented Gates, knowing that his country’s data is very worrying, not least because this Thursday the United States exceeded 14 million infections and beat the daily death record: 3000.
Bill Gates calls for people to avoid meetings and wear a mask anywhere they can be exposed outside the home.
In addition to the various vaccines, Bill Gates is optimistic about advances in treatments such as those made with monoclonal antibodies (which act to mimic the immune system’s ability to fight viruses).
“In the spring, these resources will be large enough for the United States to start to change dramatically and return to normal,” he said.
It should be noted that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have already applied for approval and emergency use to the Food and Drug Administration in order to prevent the pandemic from advancing as quickly as possible. In the UK, authorization has already been obtained this Wednesday.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo explained this Wednesday that he hopes to vaccinate about 170,000 people by December 15.
In the same wave of optimism, the leading American specialist in infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci, believes that in April healthy young people will be vaccinated.
The bad news is that a large number of people do not want to be vaccinated. According to one estimate, 42% of the United States population does not want to get the vaccine. For this reason, former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have already offered to be vaccinated in front of the cameras, in order to raise public awareness that the vaccine is safe.
Bill Gates maintains the “hope” that more and more people will decide to get vaccinated next year. The Microsoft co-founder guarantees that “more news about a lot of people having a good experience and [uma vacina] to be able to help not to die “will make the citizens end up choosing to take the necessary doses for the treatment to take effect and create group immunity – which, according to Fauci, will be achieved when 75% to 85% of Americans are vaccinated.
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