Bill Gates

Some country will give COVID-19 vaccines to large numbers of people before those vaccines have completed full regulatory review.

“I bet there’ll be some vaccines that will get out to lots of patients without the full regulatory review somewhere in the world.”

Said on

7 August 2020 · Interview with Steven Levy, WIRED, August 2020

Source

Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are 'Completely Garbage' · WIRED

Should come true

No date given

How sure they sounded

"I bet"

Categories

Health

Importance

2 of 5 · Concerns vaccine safety practice during the pandemic in some countries.

Outcome

Accurate Happened 11 August 2020.

Inferred window: the pandemic vaccine rollout (about 2020-2021). Four days after the interview, Russia registered Sputnik V (11 August 2020) before Phase 3 trials and went on to give it widely. China had already granted emergency use of Sinopharm's vaccine in mid-2020 ahead of full trial results.

Evidence:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_V_COVID-19_vaccine
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBIBP-CorV