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A battle between President Donald Trump and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was a “very unfortunate” setback for COVID-19 vaccine development, billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates ...
One thing Bill Gates is thinking about these days is using the never-ending stimulus negotiations to help vaccinate the poorest countries in the world against COVID-19.
The World Health Organization has classified vaccine related misinformation into five topic areas. These are: threat of disease (vaccine preventable diseases are harmless), trust (questioning the trustworthiness of healthcare authorities who administer vaccines), alternative methods (such as alternative medicine to replace vaccination), effectiveness (vaccines do not work) and safety (vaccines ...
Voting behavior refers to how people decide how to vote. [1] This decision is shaped by a complex interplay between an individual voter's attitudes as well as social factors. [ 1 ] Voter attitudes include characteristics such as ideological predisposition , party identity , degree of satisfaction with the existing government, public policy ...
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates knows he's the subject of many a conspiracy theory.. He recently told CNET about an encounter he had with a woman who thinks he uses microchips to track people ...
Political leanings are reflected in vaccine hesitancy. Early in the pandemic, before vaccines were available, a poll conducted May 20–21, 2020, found that 44% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats believed a debunked conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was plotting to use a COVID-19 vaccine to inject microchips into the population. [191]
While privately funded programs like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation play substantial roles in vaccine development, The Lancet highlights how government funding from 2000-2017 has pioneered much of the spending on vaccines in the world and continues to be an essential asset in increasing vaccine accessibility to citizens. [57]
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair Bill Gates told TIME that he’d give the U.S.’s COVID-19 response “not a passing grade… on a relative and absolute basis.”