Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently spoke about new plans to change the way vaccines are administered, created and distributed around the globe.
While appearing on CNBC TV18 in India, Gates was asked how he sees vaccine manufacturing around the globe amid different tech and health care advancements.
"We make sure, for all these vaccines, that there's enough capacity, that there's competition so the prices keep going down," Gates said. "And we will have new vaccines. We'll have a TB [tuberculosis] vaccine, malaria vaccine, HIV vaccine."
As Gates continued, he spoke about the COVID-19 vaccine and explained ways it could change.
"We need to make them have longer duration, more coverage," he said. "And we're gonna change, instead of using a needle, to use a little patch."
Gates' comments came shortly after he spoke at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend more than $8 billion to help develop new technology in health care, according to Bloomberg.
In November, Reuters reported that Micron Biomedical, a pharmaceutical company based in the U.S., received a $23.6 million donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in an effort to develop vaccine patches, instead of using a needle, as he mentioned Thursday.
Following the rollout of the different COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., many conspiracy theories surrounded Gates, with anti-vaxxers claiming that he had microchips placed in the vaccines.
"There's a constant dialogue of anybody who gets, you know, this crazy stuff published, going to the digital platforms and saying: 'Hey, look at this, look at that.'" Gates told ABC News Australia in January 2023 regarding the conspiracy theories. "Maybe I should complain even more, but I certainly point out false stories when they're published, or even people who highlight sort of almost silly misinformation."
However, following his recent remarks about changing the way some vaccines are administered and manufacturing new shots, some social media users criticized Gates.
"GREAT! Vaccines for everything," actor Russel Brand wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Bill Gates and the WEF's global takeover is HERE."
X user Concerned Citizen wrote: "Eugenicist Bill Gates wants as many of his vaccines in as many people as possible. Good news though - it will no longer necessarily be an injection - you can now take his Gene Therapy through simple applied patches - I'm sure the children will be extremely happy about not needing to be stabbed in order to develop autism & whatever side effects may come on the label."
Newsweek reached out to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation via email for comment.
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