Bill Gates thinks the COVID-19 pandemic won't be over until the end of 2021, even for the world's richest countries

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• Bill Gates, the tech billionaire philanthropist who is helping to fund vaccine research for a number of deadly illnesses including COVID-19, is feeling optimistic about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. 
• Thanks to this work, he thinks the pandemic should be under control by the end of 2021 for the world's richest nations and by 2022 for the developing world, he told Wired in an interview.
• While that represents record-speed scientific progress, it may be disappointing to think about living in a pandemic for another year or longer.
• Meanwhile, Gates warns people not to let their guards down because he thinks COVID-19 could surge again in the fall.
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Bill Gates is feeling optimistic that, with all the work being done to develop COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, there is an end to the pandemic in sight.

Unfortunately, that end is still at least a year away, he told Wired's Steven Levy.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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