{"id":262092,"date":"2010-02-01T16:02:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2010-02-01T16:02:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:02:04","slug":"bill-gates-gives-10-billion-for-vaccines-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/262092","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates gives $10 billion for vaccines! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have no doubt, I’m a Mac guy. I don’t drink the Kool Aid, but my time with using PCs is well behind me. But y’know, Bill Gates is still my kinda guy: he and his wife are investing ten billion dollars to get vaccines to kids who need them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s $10,000,000,000<\/strong>. Holy Haleakala. They think this can save nearly 9 million lives, and I think that’s pretty cool:<\/p>\n

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“Vaccines are a miracle,” added Melinda Gates. “With just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime. We’ve made vaccines our priority at the Gates Foundation because we’ve seen firsthand their incredible impact on children’s lives.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Good on them. Very, very<\/em> good. This is not only something desperately needed, but the publicity is, haha, a shot in the arm as well. <\/p>\n

And if I may disagree ever-so-slightly with Ms. Gates, I’ll add that vaccines are not<\/em> a miracle: they are the result of science, of clever people, of medical advances. That fact is lost on a lot of folks, including the antivaxxers. On top of this incredibly generous move, I’d love to see Mr. and Ms. Gates donate some money and effort to a good ad campaign that promotes vaccination and specifically targets the claims of the pro-disease<\/del> antivax crowd, so that their work will have even more of a sustainable impact. I’m so thrilled they’re doing this, but we also need a national campaign to show people that the antivaxxers are wrong and doing significant damage to the public health. <\/p>\n

Still and all: my congrats to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and my very sincere and hearty thanks. <\/p>\n

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Have no doubt, I’m a Mac guy. I don’t drink the Kool Aid, but my time with using PCs is well behind me. But y’know, Bill Gates is still my kinda guy: he and his wife are investing ten billion dollars to get vaccines to kids who need them. That’s $10,000,000,000. Holy Haleakala. They think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}