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Microsoft founder Bill Gates said he talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, regularly.
“I talk to him regularly, more often than he talks to some other people,” Gates told CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta during a coronavirus town hall.
“He’s fantastic,” Gates said of Fauci.
In terms of a timeline, Gates said he’s aligned with Fauci on his prediction that there will be a viable vaccine by the end of the year, or early 2021.
Gates explained that there are two characteristics being evaluated in developing a vaccine. Firstly, that the vaccine prevents you from getting sick and secondly, that it prevents you spreading it to others.
On the latter, he warned that “it’s not guaranteed that the vaccine will be a perfect transmission blocker.”
Despite that, Gates said recent evidence points to the antibody response being “very strong,” which suggests about a year of immunity to anyone who gets the disease.
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