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Bill Gates is funding new factories for 7 potential coronavirus vaccines
- sadfev 7y agoAll his investments are sensible and can actually help humanity. Is the only person from Silicon Valley trying to make nuclear happen and happen cheap.
- RobLach 7y agoMicrosoft nor Bill are from Silicon Valley.
- Symmetry 7y agoThe Gates Foundation still has a bit to go before it surpasses the Rockefeller Foundation (which funded Norman Borlaug) but its working on it. I'm glad to see someone taking such a forward looking view in this crisis. The people keeping us alive now and the people hammering away at cures are doing phenomenal and necessary work but it's also good to have people asking "What unusual thing would we wish we had done 6 months out" and then doing it.
- IXxXI 7y agoSARS 1st emerged in 2002. 18 years passed without a vaccine. Was there a recent breakthrough in medical science. Which now makes a vaccine plausible?
- vrinstan 7y agoThe greater panic creates bigger revenue this time.