{"id":112297,"date":"2020-09-01T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-covid-19-pandemic-will-be-over-by-the-end-of-2021-says-bill-gates"},"modified":"2020-09-01T17:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:22:33","slug":"the-covid-19-pandemic-will-be-over-by-the-end-of-2021-says-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-covid-19-pandemic-will-be-over-by-the-end-of-2021-says-bill-gates","title":{"rendered":"The covid-19 pandemic will be over by the end of 2021, says Bill Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m7StkvQ7kos?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MILLIONS MORE are going to die before the covid-19 pandemic is over. That is the stark message of Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world\u2019s largest philanthropists via the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, in an interview with Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist\u2019s editor-in-chief, in early August. Most of these deaths, he said, would be caused not by the disease itself, but by the further strain on health-care systems and economies that were already struggling.<\/p>\n<p>But he offered reasons for hope in the medium term, predicting that by the end of 2021 a reasonably effective vaccine would be in mass production, and a large enough share of the world\u2019s population would be immunised to halt the pandemic in its tracks.<\/p>\n<p>1) If \u201cMost of these deaths, he said, would be caused not by the disease itself, but by the further strain on health-care systems and economies that were already struggling.\u201d, how will a vaccine at the end if 2021 magically change that? 2) No one knows what will happen in the future, but one knows what one wants to happen. It is called a plan for 2021, not a prediction of 2021. 3) What about treatments?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But millions of deaths are yet to come in poor countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong itemProp=\"articleSection\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/international\/\">International<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-covid-19-pandemic-will-be-over-by-the-end-of-2021-says-bill-gates\">Continue reading \u201cThe covid-19 pandemic will be over by the end of 2021, says Bill Gates\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILLIONS MORE are going to die before the covid-19 pandemic is over. That is the stark message of Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world\u2019s largest philanthropists via the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, in an interview with Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist\u2019s editor-in-chief, in early August. Most of these deaths, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}