Bill Gates warns against vaccines, drugs “going to highest bidder”
By AFP
13 July 2020 |
11:00 am
Philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates calls for any future COVID-19 vaccine to be distributed based on "equity", warning that selling drugs "to the highest bidder" would lead to a "longer, more injust, deadlier pandemic".
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