The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committing an additional $70 million to develop and ... [+] distribute Covid-19 vaccines in low- and middle-income countries. To that end, Melinda Gates announced Thursday that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committing $70 million to develop and deliver affordable vaccines to low- and middle-income countries. “Covid-19 anywhere is Covid-19 everywhere,” Melinda Gates said in a statement about the new commitment. “We’re trying to stitch different country efforts together,” Melinda Gates said at the Forbes Philanthropy Summit in June. Earlier this year, Bill Gates drew praise for a prescient 2015 Ted talk entitled “The next outbreak?

Source: Forbes November 12, 2020 18:30 UTC