Boston Celtics lead governor Wyc Grousbeck has taken a personal interest in bringing the fight to COVID-19, using his connections to area hospitals to help further one of many coronavirus vaccine efforts currently underway around the world.
Grousbeck, who joins co-governor Steve Pagliuca in the struggle against the pandemic, recently went on CBS’ WBZ Boston to discuss how he’s working to help fight the viral malady interrupting the NBA and much else about our lives around the world.
With efforts focused on a gene-based vaccine led by Dr. Luke Vandenberg, Grousbeck explained how they have been proceeding.
“We’ve been told that the world needs a couple of vaccines or more to be able to treat everybody and to try to cure the world, basically,” he began. “And so this could be part of that.”
Grousbeck shared much progress has already been made, noting they’ve already received ” major donations,” and that they’ve spoken the Gates Foundation — who have been backing several such measures around the world — in the hopes they extend funding to this effort as well.
“This … is an A+ plus team and we think this has a lot of potential, so we’re proud to be part of it,” the Celtics co-owner related.
On the overall sentiment about a return to action for the team, Grousbeck was hopeful; “the general mood that I have is optimistic,” he offered. “You have to be focused, you have to be safe.”
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