Bill Gates: This is the 'very best case' scenario for when life can return to normal post-pandemic. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates participates in a discussion during a luncheon of the Economic Club of Washington June 24, 2019 in Washington, DC.Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, it can be hard to remember life before the novel coronavirus. So when might the pandemic end so that things can return to normal?
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has an idea about what the best-case timeline looks like for Americans. "In the very best case, two years from now, you would be, for some of the health things in particular, ideally back at where you were at the beginning of 2020," Gates said in an interview with New York Magazine'sAnd what would it take to achieve this kind of progress?
"If we're lucky enough that several of these vaccines work, including the ones that are low cost enough that we can scale the manufacturing," Gates said. And if the vaccines can be mass-produced to "for the entire world," then there is hope, he said. "I do think once you get into, say, December or January, the chances are that at least two or three will [seek approval]"In that case, during 2021, the pandemic is going down, and in 2022, the global pandemic comes to an end," he told Intelligencer.
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