Critics Call Out Gates Foundation’s $40 Million ‘Gift’ to Build mRNA Vaccine Factories in Africa

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will invest $40 million in a Belgian company’s technology designed to ramp up mRNA vaccine production in Africa and other low-income countries to tackle a variety of infectious diseases and “be available on standby in case of a future pandemic.”

Quantoom Biosciences, based in Nivelles, Belgium, will get $20 million to advance its work on its mRNA manufacturing platform that makes “cheap” vaccines of “incredible quality” at unprecedented speed and scale, according to Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation. ---More...