Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla have donated $25m to fight against the global covid-19 pandemic.

Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his official Facebook wall on the 27th of March, 2020 about him and his wife’s decision to donate the money in other to accelerate the development of the treatment of covid-19.

His statement reads as follows:

Priscilla and I are committing $25 million to accelerate the development of treatments for COVID-19. We’re partnering with the Gates Foundation and others to quickly evaluate the most promising existing drugs to see which ones might be effective at preventing and treating the coronavirus.

Since these drugs have already gone through clinical safety trials, if they’re effective, it will be much faster to make them available than it will be to develop and test a new vaccine — hopefully months rather than a year or more.

I’m looking forward to seeing what the Therapeutics Accelerator discovers.

More soon.