{"id":118462,"date":"2021-12-09T05:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T04:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=118462"},"modified":"2021-12-09T05:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T04:51:05","slug":"omicron-the-world-is-better-prepared-to-tackle-potentially-bad-variants-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/09\/omicron-the-world-is-better-prepared-to-tackle-potentially-bad-variants-bill-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron: The world is better prepared to tackle potentially bad variants &#8211; Bill Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire businessman and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has stated that the world is better prepared to handle new COVID variants such as Omicron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caps\">There have been concerns worldwide over the effects of Omicron, which has been designated as a &#8220;variant of concern&#8221; by the World Health Organisation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/07\/nigeria-accounted-for-27-of-half-of-malaria-deaths-worldwide-in-2020-who\/\">(WHO)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Travel from several countries \u2014 including Nigeria \u2014 has been banned over Omicron cases.<\/p>\n<p>Gates in his end-of-year letter released on Wednesday said\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">t<\/span>here is no doubt about how concerning Omicron is, adding that researchers are working urgently to learn more about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBut here\u2019s what we do know: The world is better prepared to tackle potentially bad variants than at any other point in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/07\/nigeria-accounted-for-27-of-half-of-malaria-deaths-worldwide-in-2020-who\/\">pandemic<\/a> so far,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">He also expressed concern about the unfair distribution of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">He added that with the emergence of new variants and challenges with vaccination, the world is not as close to the end of the pandemic as he had hoped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI am hopeful, though, that the end is finally in sight. It might be foolish to make another prediction, but I think the acute phase of the pandemic will come to a close some time in 2022,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The 65-year-old also said the progress made on vaccines is \u201cremarkable\u201d, as the world has never made and distributed a vaccine for a disease faster than it did for COVID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe fact that we had one\u2014let alone multiple!\u2014vaccines during the first year of the pandemic is miraculous,\u201d Gates said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He, however, said the area he sees as the \u201cbiggest disappointment is the inequity of vaccine allocation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe world has done an outstanding job manufacturing and distributing billions of doses of vaccine, but the fact that so few people at high risk in low-income countries have received them is unacceptable,\u201d the letter reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt just doesn\u2019t make sense that so many low-risk people got vaccinated before we reached everyone who\u2019s older or had an underlying medical condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMoving forward, we need to change how the world allocates doses and find ways to ramp up manufacturing even faster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He also called for improvement in finding ways to tackle disinformation, including conspiracy theories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI thought demand for vaccines would be way higher than it has been in places like the United States. It\u2019s clear that disinformation (including conspiracy theories that unfortunately involve me) is having a substantial impact on people\u2019s willingness to get vaccinated. This is part of a larger trend toward distrust in institutions, and it\u2019s one of the issues I\u2019m most worried about, heading into 2022,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire businessman and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has stated that the world is better prepared to handle new COVID variants such as Omicron. There have been concerns worldwide over the effects of Omicron, which has been designated as a &#8220;variant of concern&#8221; by the World Health Organisation (WHO). 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