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Gates Foundation Plans To Invest $10B Into Vaccines

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the finally-gates-gets-good-anti-virus dept.

Endloser writes "Bill Gates is going to invest $10 billion to provide vaccines to people worldwide. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes that vaccines are the way to a better future for the world. So they have decided to make 'the largest pledge ever made by a charitable foundation to a single cause.' This 10-year, 10 billion dollar project is expected to save 8.7 million lives."

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  1. Big Pharma won't like this... by bfmorgan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Big Pharma won't like this. They make money by providing medicines to treat diseases not prevent them.

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  2. If Gates had imagination or vision... by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He would be pouring every dime he could into the development of human-like, scalable, artificial intelligence - solving all the problems that are solvable instead of this piecemeal nonsense. Moreover, Gates is in a better position than anyone on the planet to get this done.

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