Bill Gates said the end of the pandemic will be in 2022

Microsoft founder Bill Gates this week predicted when the world would abandon the coronavirus pandemic and return “completely to normal.”

According to the American tycoon, the advancement of vaccination and the technology used in this process are essential for thinking about the end of the pandemic and the restrictions it entails.

For this reason, in the words of the computer scientist, it will be “at the end of 2022” when the population is immune to the disease and people return to “normal” lives.

With the first case of the coronavirus detected in December 2019, if Bill Gates’ predictions are correct, it would take humanity about three years to completely defeat the coronavirus.

“Thanks to the coronavirus vaccines, by the end of 2022 we will be able to end this incredible tragedy and completely return to normalcy,” Gates predicted to Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and TVN24 television signal.

The American businessman said a few weeks ago on the Clubhouse audio social network that “during the spring or summer of 2021 (in the United States), people could resume their activities before the pandemic”.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is estimated to have invested $ 1.75 billion in the development of vaccines and treatments for SARS-CoV-2.

On the other hand, Gates called on the world’s political leaders to collaborate on immunizing peripheral countries. “Supplying vaccines to developing countries will be the only way to end the pandemic,” the mogul told CNBC.

The Covax project, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi), aims to ensure that developing countries receive a total of 2 billion doses of the vaccine against the coronavirus.

Additionally, in an interview with scientist Derek Muller, Gates warned of other potential threats humanity may face in the years to come: climate change and bioterrorism.

“What’s the next disaster? What are we not prepared for? Muller asked. “One is climate change,” the American said, and predicted that “every year there will be an even higher death toll than we have had in this pandemic.”

In this sense, he said that bioterrorism is “something that people don’t like to talk about very much, but” for someone to want to cause harm by conceiving a virus means the possibility of incurring a higher cost than epidemics. natural like the current one “., lament.

Vaccines

Currently, Bill Gates is funding a vaccine against the coronavirus developed in the Swedish-American laboratory Novavax.

This vaccine differs from others because it contains quillay, a South American tree that the Mapuche used as a medicinal plant.

Quillay (Mapudungun küllay) grows in central Chile and has been used by humans for millennia to treat stomach and respiratory ailments, skin problems, and rheumatism. It is also part of the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry.

Susan Desmond-Hellman, former CEO of the Gates Foundation, was reportedly responsible for the union of Pfizer and BioNTech for the development of this vaccine.

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