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“We want to make sure we don’t have people dying just because they don’t have access to the vaccine,” Gates said Wednesday. “We will get a good deal on the vaccine, and we need the world to get a good deal on that. Many of the companies have committed themselves to that.”
Gates spoke on vaccine safety, saying he expects the Food and Drug Administration will do a good job of reviewing any potential vaccine despite the pressure to make one available to the public as soon as possible.
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Gates also said the potential vaccine will likely require two doses rather than one, potentially further limiting the number of people who can get vaccinated once a vaccine becomes available.
His wife, Melinda Gates, (also a billionaire philanthropist and co-chair of the foundation), said in May that scientists and health officials may find a vaccine that is effective in preventing Covid-19 by the end of this year “if we’re lucky.”
"Even if scientists do find a vaccine in record time, they would still need to make millions and eventually billions of doses of the vaccine for the general public", she said.
"There are more than 7.6 billion people in the world, and some of the vaccines under development require more than one dose", she said.
“We have never, never as a globe made a vaccine of this type before nor of this scale before ever."
But ...
According to a poll from the
Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, only about half of Americans say they would get a coronavirus vaccine if scientists succeed in making one that works.
Among Americans who say they wouldn’t get vaccinated, 7 in 10 worry about safety, according to the poll.
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