Fifty million dollars in newly announced funding will go toward the GAVI Vaccine Alliance, which helps bring vaccines to lower-income countries.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is separately partnering with Mastercard and Wellcome to offer $125 million in funding to identify potential COVID-19 treatments and speed up their development.

Seattle tech is leading the way in helping new parents keep their jobs and spend time with their newborn. Here are six of the best paid parental leave policies in the Seattle tech industry (and one non-tech company we simply had to include).