

Vitalik Buterin, in response to their conversation, left a message: "Actually your support on non-intrusive anti-covid tech would be very appreciated! The world needs a sane middle that recognizes that many anti-covid measures have high costs and we need to move past them and that covid is still causing damage and there's other ways to fight it."
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022
Buterin added a link to his new charitable organization, Balvi, through which he has pledged to donate $100 million to coronavirus research projects in collaboration with the Shiba Inu Coin team.
Earlier, Buterin tweeted that the Balvi Fund he created has provided grants to several projects, including $2.5 million to RaDVaC, an open-source new coronavirus vaccine research and development project, and ActiveBuidings, an air purifier developer dedicated to filtering viruses. $1 million and $3 million to the Patient-Led Research Collaborative for Long COVID, a research organization for patients with the new coronavirus.