{"id":117086,"date":"2020-12-13T17:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/bill-gates-says-bars-and-restaurants-should-sadly-be-closed-for-4-6-months-no-return-to-normal-until-2022"},"modified":"2020-12-13T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T01:23:45","slug":"bill-gates-says-bars-and-restaurants-should-sadly-be-closed-for-4-6-months-no-return-to-normal-until-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/bill-gates-says-bars-and-restaurants-should-sadly-be-closed-for-4-6-months-no-return-to-normal-until-2022","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates says bars and restaurants should \u2018sadly\u2019 be closed for 4\u20136 months, no return to \u2018normal\u2019 until 2022"},"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\/AiUJnNlkwWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes a return to \u201cnormal\u201d life is further down the road for the US than people expect, despite a Covid-19 vaccine being approved and distributed this week.<\/p>\n<p>Conceding that by the summer of 2021, the US should be <em>\u201cway closer to normal than we are now,\u201d<\/em> Gates, who has donated millions to vaccination efforts through his foundation, believes a full return to normal will likely not be possible until after 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire told CNN on Sunday that <em>\u201cunless we help other countries get rid of this disease\u201d<\/em> and see <em>\u201chigh vaccination rates\u201d<\/em> within the US, the \u201crisk of reintroduction\u201d will be possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes a return to \u201cnormal\u201d life is further down the road for the US than people expect, despite a Covid-19 vaccine being approved and distributed this week. Conceding that by the summer of 2021, the US should be \u201cway closer to normal than we are now,\u201d Gates, who has donated millions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117086","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\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}