The Insider Edition
April 30, 2020
Humankind has never had a more urgent task than creating broad immunity for coronavirus.
Realistically, if we’re going to return to normal, we need to develop a safe, effective vaccine—and we need to do it faster than we’ve ever developed a vaccine before. Creating a new vaccine usually takes a minimum of five years. But Bill Gates remains optimistic that we can safely condense that process into 18 months or even less.
How exactly are we going to do that? According to Bill Gates, the process is complicated but fascinating.
Bill Gates wrote an in-depth explainer that will hopefully answer some questions.
Read more about the race for a COVID-19 vaccine on Bill Gates’ blog:
There are dozens of candidates in the pipeline.
As of April 9, there are 115 different COVID-19 vaccine candidates in the development pipeline. Bill Gates thinks that eight to ten of those look particularly promising.