Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are donating $13.6 million to study COVID-19 spread in the Bay Area by AngelAuYeung
On Wednesday morning, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — the philanthropic and investing arm of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan — announced it would give $13.6 million to fund a nine-month research project to better understand the prevalence of coronavirus in the Bay Area.
“To reopen society in the Bay Area and keep healthcare workers safe, we need to first understand the epidemiology of this disease,” Priscilla Chan, cofounder of CZI, said in a press release.
The project will consist of two long-term studies. The first will be a sample survey of a representative population in the Bay Area with the goal of figuring out how to keep transmission rates low as California re-opens without a vaccine. While scientists around the world are working to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, even the most optimistic estimates expect a vaccine in the summer of 2021 at the earliest.
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