Melinda Gates Organize your biggest concern for the next phase of pandemic COVID-19

From 2018-2019 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave more money to the World Health Organization as each unit except for the US government. President Donald Trump ever relations with the international health agency in the mid-19th COVID pandemic, work Gates Foundation has revived cutting back. Co-chair Bill Gates announced at the Global Vaccine Summit on June 4, which will provide $1.6 billion over five years for the vaccine Alliance (GAVI) for help, it will ensure that the entire people have access to vaccines world, regardless of income. GAVI, the Gates Foundation in 1999 has committed $750 million to provide aid, and the organization has vaccinated more than 760 million children in disadvantaged areas. Before the commitment event June 4 TIME spoke with Gates Foundation co-chair Melinda Gates on fair solutions COVID-19, the need for optimism in times of fear and what will happen to the WHO. TIME: The scale of the protests against the racism that we see right now is incredible. How it’s time for your work in this area as the equitable health work? Gates: What happened to George Floyd brutal and horrible and should never be anyone happen anywhere. This is probably a time in the United States. We all need to really break this time and learn as much as possible from him. Even before we had seen COVID these senseless deaths already begun to show gaps and structural problems of our country. We see men blacks disproportionately die. We know that the way COVID-19 output will be a vaccine, and needs to be alone. How will you ensure that this happens? Ensure that the vaccine does not go to the highest bidder. GAVI uses a set pool of resources by governments and citizens, in order to make sure that when you go to buy the vaccine, you can make it available in large quantities at low prices. We got the delivery system, more, really set correctly for 20 years. This means events lien governments around the world in global cooperation to tell everything step, we take care of this vaccine justice ‘, [because their contributions help GAVI cans save and distribute when available]. The first people who need this vaccine, 60 million health workers worldwide. They deserve otherwise before reaching someone. Then start tiering. Who needs after health professionals? In the United States the next black people who would, in all honesty, and many other people of color. They are having a disproportionate impact of COVID-19 From there, people with underlying health conditions, and then the people who are getting older. These are the ones, all this before the must. We also need to think about essential workers who keep open our groceries for us so that we can buy groceries, or make sure that food moves through the halls. When you think that most people are vaccinated can? We’re probably 18 months after that. If you have questions about how to administration if Trump Trump President is still time to distribute the vaccine? We are all concerned that the vaccine to the highest bidder will not. There are some signs that you can get the first doses to buy, and I think that would be a disgrace to the whole world. It ‘important for world leaders to step up and lock arms and say:’ This is all, if you live in India or Tanzania or Switzerland ‘While the US pulling out the WHO will affect the organization’s work .? The WHO is not a perfect institution. No institution is perfect. But at the center of a pandemic is the last time that you should change or withdrawal will. WHO it was established as doing this with pandemics to deal with things such as smallpox, to do with things like polio. The US Government is the largest contributor to the WHO. No one can replace the US funding has been put into the WHO. This decision will affect the whole of WHO. I care deeply about polio. I worry deeply concerned about measles. I’m worried about Ebola. If we do not believe we were global, COVID certainly showed us. The United States was a founding member of the WHO after the Second World War, because we have seen how important it was. To go back to something that we know will help us all that is simply useless. It ‘s another thing to do an autopsy when the crisis is over and say,’ Hey, we need some structural changes in the WHO or are we different government needs’, but not in the middle of a pandemic. Just do not make it so. the global health community has faced a challenge like COVID-19? No, the Spanish flu in 1918, I guess you could say. But we were traveling, not to levels that the way we are now. The vaccine-creation challenge is unprecedented, both in terms of speed of development and the number of doses. The world has never been a vaccine in this short period of time created 7 billion doses. The good thing is, the world is actually coordinated, when I see many people think, and that is happiness. What gives hope now? I have pictures where I am sitting in my office, the mothers I have met throughout the Third World, I said about the lengths they go to their children to receive vaccines. It is 15 kilometers in the heat, wear your baby on her back. These mothers know the difference that vaccines to make life in their children. When I think of them, they give me so much hope, although I have a little ‘thrust back see here on vaccines in the United States. The other thing that gives me hope is that the next generation. I see how it comes to race. They are willing to stand up and listen, they are ready to march to go in the street and say., This is not fair ‘that gives me a lot of hope. This interview has been condensed for clarity and be easily modified.
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