Vaccines against the three major killers of the world's poo…

Combined, HIV, TB and malaria kill up to 6 million people a year worldwide, yet the foremost leading voice for production of vaccines in the world says getting vaccines for them is not a priority. Why is that?

When one considers that only about 500 people die of TB in the United States a year, it becomes clear that millions dying in Africa, is not important enough to warrant putting more effort into researching vaccines for them

This reveals - albeit expected - a level of hypocrisy from those who claim to want to save the lives of Africans from a pandemic which doesn't even do anything to Africans, at least relative to the Big 3 killers...

Furthermore, other solutions including a hepatitis C vaccine, a combination vaccine against the four leading causes of deadly diarrhoea and a rapid TB cure have been identified by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and by extension the WHO as non-priorities

Gates Open Research estimates that in order to accelerate the development of these vaccines (HIV, TB & malaria) there needs to be spending of $9 billion per year, up from the current $3 billion and decreasing every year

Elon Musk is worth $209 billion, but I digress...

OK, for the elephant in the room. Whenever you ask why so much priority is placed on COVID-19 over TB, for instance, you get the same canned response: there's no treatment or vaccine for COVID, but there is a treatment for TB...

Well...why isn't there any treatment for COVID-19, then? Why do Big 3 killers have treatment instead of vaccines? Surely if treatment comes before a vaccine, as is the case with TB, HIV and malaria, this should be the case with COVID by now...

When you ask what's so different with COVID-19, you get told it's because it's "new". Oh? At some point, TB was "new", so were HIV and malaria, how come they still don't have vaccines? Actually, TB was defeated in the West without a vaccine or a shutdown, or mandatory masks etc..

Also, this coronavirus is neither the most contagious virus out there right now, nor is it even close to being the deadliest. It's not the first "new" virus in history either

So, what exactly makes COVID-19 so different from any other disease out there to warrant all of this?

Source: https://t.co/CNRYXENYNS

Vaccines against the three major killers of the world's poorest: TB, HIV and malaria are unlikely to have vaccines anytime soon unless vastly more money is committed to researching them, according to the Bill Gates-funded Gates Open Research...

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