Coronavirus vaccine should not be distributed to “The Highest Bidder”
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Coronavirus vaccine should not be distributed to “The Highest Bidder”

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates said that Covid-19 medication and future vaccines should be distributed to people who need them the most and not to “the highest bidder.” “If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we’ll have a longer, more unjust deadlier pandemic,” Gates said in a remote conference

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