Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is committed to public health and pushing for the global distribution of vaccines, said on the 18th that the risk of the new coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) has been “substantially reduced”, but warned humanity that another pandemic is ahead. Yes, and next time it will be a different pathogen, not a coronavirus.
When he attended the Munich Security Conference on the 18th, he said that it has been more than two years since the outbreak of the epidemic, and a large number of people around the world have acquired a certain degree of immunity, and its severity has also increased with the latest mutant virus strain Omicron ) and weakened.
“These risks are now greatly reduced due to infection exposure, the chance of becoming seriously ill, mainly related to older age and having obesity or diabetes,” he said.
The US Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC) said on the 18th that about 61.9% of the world’s population is currently vaccinated at least 1 dose, but Gates believes that the goal of 70% of the world’s population to be vaccinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) by mid-2022 is to be achieved. It was “too late”.
He said that if governments start to invest now to accelerate vaccine development and distribution, the vaccine production time can be shortened to six months. “Next time we should try to do it in six months, not two years.” He added. , standardized platforms, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology, will make this possible.