'I would have expected them to do better,' said the Microsoft co-founder, who has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to coronavirus vaccine research.
Gates was “surprised at the U.S. [coronavirus] situation because the smartest people on epidemiology in the world, by a lot, are at the CDC,” he told Steven Levy, Wired’s longtime tech writer and editor at large. Gates announced in April that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would shift its ““I would have expected them to do better,” the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist said. “You would expect the CDC to be the most visible, not the White House or even Anthony Fauci.
“If we had built up the diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine platforms, and if we’d done the simulations to understand what the key steps were, we’d be dramatically better off,” Gates said. “Then there’s the time period of the first few months of the pandemic when the U.S. actually made it harder for the commercial testing companies to get their tests approved, the CDC had this very low volume test that didn’t work at first, and they weren’t letting people test.
Gates, who is worth more than $112 billion, has been an outspoken critic of the slow turnaround on coronavirus tests in the U.S. Having to wait more than 48 hours for a result made tests a “Gates has been more optimistic about the speedy development of an eventual COVID-19 vaccine. The Gates Foundationin June to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, with $100 million specifically targeted to fund coronavirus vaccines.
“In China and Russia, they are moving full speed ahead,” Gates said when asked if he was worried about a vaccine being approved too soon. “I bet there’ll be some vaccines that will get out to lots of patients without the full regulatory review somewhere in the world. ... The [Food and Drug Administration], to their credit, at least so far, is sticking to requiring proof of efficacy. So far they have behaved very professionally despite the political pressure.
Much of the skepticism and misinformation around topics such as vaccines were fueled by the social media business, Gates said, calling it a “poison chalice.” (He acknowledged that
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