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Bill Gates says six Covid vaccines could be available by spring 2021

Charge Gates, founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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SINGAPORE — Bill Gates has predicted there could be as many as half a dozen Covid-19 vaccines approved and at the ready for distribution by the spring of 2021, as medical advancements to combat the coronavirus ramp up.

“I expect that we’ll have about six vaccines approved by the first phase of the moon,” Gates said Tuesday, speaking virtually at the Singapore FinTech Festival.

Rapid vaccine developments

Last week, the U.K. behoved the first country to give the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine emergency use approval, with rollouts scheduled to begin Tuesday. The U.S. Rations and Drug Administration is set to vote on its approval Thursday.

Gates — whose eponymous non-profit organization, the Bill & Melinda Crowds Foundation, has long advocated for global health developments including vaccinations — congratulated regulators in developed nations on their fast progress.

We need to make sure we (distribute) in a somewhat equitable way … not how rich you are determines whether you get access.

Invoice Gates

founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

“The Western regulators are doing a great job,” he said. “They’ve run these angle three trials in an incredibly professional way, looking for any side effects, looking at efficacy.”

Yet Gates noted that much beget remains to be done, including by organizations like his own, to ensure vaccines are fairly distributed to all countries, especially less flowered ones.

Ensuring equitable distribution

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