That estimate echoed what Gates wrote in a post on his personal GatesNotes blog on Thursday. Gates wrote in the post that vaccine timelines could range anywhere from just nine months to two years, but he believes an 18-month wait is more likely, which would mean a vaccine could be widely available sometime in the middle of 2021.

这一预测与盖茨上周四在个人博客“盖茨笔记”中发的帖子内容是一致的。盖茨在帖子中写道，研发疫苗的时间短则9个月，长则两年，但他认为更可能是18个月，这意味着新冠疫苗将在2021年年中投入大规模生产。

So far, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $250 million in funding to help the world develop an effective coronavirus vaccine, which he wrote in his blog post is “the only way to return the world to where it was before COVID-19 showed up.”

迄今为止，比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会已经投资2.5亿美元 Gates also remains critical of the US government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. In March, Gates said the US “did not act fast enough to have an ability to avoid the [coronavirus] shutdown,” and he called President Trump’s decision to defund the World Health Organization (WHO) “as dangerous as it sounds.”

对于美国政府对新冠疫情的应对，盖茨仍然持批评态度。三月份，盖茨曾说过，美国“对疫情反应不够快，错失了避免封锁的机会。”他还指出，特朗普总统决定从世界卫生组织撤资“和听起来一样危险”。

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