Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are working together to fund research for COVID-19 treatments as the pandemic continues to spread

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic organization that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan launched in 2015, announced on Friday that it's contributing $25 million to Bill Gates' accelerator for developing therapies and medicine to treat COVID-19. The contribution from Zuckerberg and his wife comes after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator earlier in March. Mastercard'' and charity foundation ''Wellcome are also partnering with Bill & Melinda Gates as part of the initiative, which started with $125 million in seed funding at its launch. The goal of the project is to develop affordable treatments to COVID-19 that can be distributed at scale. The accelerator will evaluate new and repurpose existing drugs to for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, and hopes to use its research to fight other viral pathogens in the long term as well. The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will also be working with the World Health Organization on the project'.

Evaluating existing drugs is particularly important because since they've already gone through clinical safety trials, it would be much quicker to make them available at scale than developing a new vaccine, Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. The announcement is one of several efforts that Silicon Valley tech giants are making in an effort to help combat the spreading coronavirus, which has killed nearly 25,000 people around the world and infected more than half a million.

Amazon and Microsoft contributed to a $2.5 million relief fund for deploying resources to organizations working with communities impacted by the coronavirus outbreak in the Seattle area. Facebook has also launched a $100 million program to help small businesses impacted by the pandemic, and Apple said it would donate 10 million protective face masks to relief efforts in the United States.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-mark-zuckerberg-find-covid-19-treatment-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-3

Pelosi: I Took McConnell’s Coronavirus Stimulus and ‘Turned it Around’ with Jiu-Jitsu

Friday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed she completely turned around the original bill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) presented for a coronavirus bill stimulus package.

Maddow asked, “In terms of the president’s personal actions and his personal decisions, I was struck by the fact he issued a signing statement when he signed this bill today saying that he would o the provision of this bill that lays out some oversight and the establishment of the inspector general to make sure that some of the business bailout provisions in the bill aren’t misused. The president is saying today that he has no interest in that oversight, and he’ll override that. What’s your reaction to that?”

Pelosi said, “Well, of course, it’s not a surprise to anyone, but Congress will exercise its oversight. We will have our panel of House —appointed by the House in realtime to make sure we know where those funds are being expended.” She added, “Let me say that the president’s statement is indicative of the difference between Democrats and Republicans when it came to this bill. The bill that was put on the floor last Saturday by Senator McConnell was a corporation, corporate down bill, trickle-down, as usual. What it turned into was a bubble up workers-first legislation, workers, and families first. They never thought they would be supporting the provisions that are in the bill that related to unemployment insurance and how it’s expanded in so many ways, all that we would be doing for small businesses, that there would be provisions that would be helpful to families in terms of access to health care and the rest. The bill was jiu-jitsu. We took the bill and turned it around. So they signed it in the White House as if they had some real provenance as to what was in the bill. They knew the bill was needed, and again, we put our conditions on any assistance that was going to industries in our country because we wanted to make sure that workers came first and they did in the bill. And they do in the bill.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/03/27/pelosi-i-took-mcconnells-coronavirus-stimulus-and-turned-it-around-with-jiu-jitsu/

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The video is not load able here…however the link to the article has the video there.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/03/27/pelosi-i-took-mcconnells-coronavirus-stimulus-and-turned-it-around-with-jiu-jitsu/

>>8607164

This is reminding me of the Pharmaceutical Companies (Sackler's) with opioid crisis, they created the addiction, then created and provided the "cure".

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>>8607164

Another thought is this: Here we are again with foundations..Are they all trying to do some cleaning?