Reed Hastings and Patty Quillin are helping out. The Netflix CEO and his wife donated $30 million to the Gavi Alliance, a nonprofit immunization organization started by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Variety reported on Friday (April 17).
The company said it’s the first private-sector contribution toward its effort to raise at least $7.4 billion to immunize 300 million children over the next five years.
They are “helping to fund immunization programs in lower-income countries around the world” amid the pandemic, and “will help fast-track coronavirus vaccine development and — once it’s available — assist with manufacturing, procurement and delivery to areas that most need it.” “Global immunization is vital to ending this terrible