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Bill Gates On Vaccine Distribution Challenges, Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy

 
• By Jessica Merrill

The public health advocate and billionaire philanthropist raised issues about how a mass COVID-19 vaccination effort is being handled so far in the US, speaking at the Stat Summit.

PARIS, FRANCE - APRIL 16: Co-chairman and co-founder of the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates speaks to the media after his meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron.
Bill Gates addressed the Stat Summit • Source: Shutterstock

Billionaire philanthropist and public health advocate Bill Gates is concerned about US preparedness to end the COVID-19 crisis. The infrastructure for mass vaccination in the US is not coming together in a "rational fashion," he warned during a session at the Stat Summit on 17 November, as states have been given too little direction amidst a lack of federal leadership.

"It is so cacophonous. It could work out in a decent way,” Gates said, but, he added, “It doesn't appear...

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