Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates said on Friday that he expects the scientific community will come up with a vaccine against the novel coronavirus relatively quickly — at least, compared to the normal time frame required to develop a vaccine.
As NBC News reports, Gates stopped by The Today Show to discuss the development of a vaccine for the virus that is currently ravaging the world. Gates, who has donated millions to the eradication of infectious diseases, said that he predicted years ago that a worldwide pandemic could possibly kill ten million people, a scenario he deemed likely than a war killing an equal number.
The key to stopping, or preventing, a viral pandemic lies in developing a vaccine. Unfortunately, that’s a process that can takes years, Gates says. Once the vaccine is produced in a laboratory, it must then be tested on animals, and then in increasingly-larger sample sizes of humans. It’s a process that can take as much as five years.
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