The country’s leading infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday that he and his team were “cautiously optimistic” about developing a coronavirus vaccine and predicted it could be approved in November or December.
“We predict that by the end of this year, let’s say November or December, we’ll know if this is safe and effective,” Fawcett said at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing.
“Preliminary studies of animals and humans in Phase 1 and Phase 2 suggest that individuals respond comparatively better if they are no better than a natural infection.” “Right now, doses of these vaccines are being prepared so they will be ready for delivery.”
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Fauqi reiterated that he has no qualms about getting an FDA-approved vaccine.
“If any vaccine that has been shown, and that has been given and proven to be safe and effective by the FDA, I will definitely get that vaccine, and I will recommend to my family that they get this vaccine.”
Before the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Hearing on July 31, 2020 in Washington DC, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci. (Photo by Kevin Diets-Pool / Getty Images)
Fawcett said in an interview with PBS Newshour in early September that it was “impossible” to have a valid coronavirus vaccine until election day, although not “impossible.”
President Trump has said that the coronavirus vaccine may be available “during the month of October” following his arrival before election day.
“We are a perfect leader in every way,” Trump said in September. Under my leadership, we will produce vaccines in record time. “
The CDC told state officials that the vaccine could be distributed by October or November, according to the report.
On Monday, Trump responded to vaccine efforts by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and AstraZeneca (in partnership with Oxford University). He described Pfizer as “really good.”
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Meanwhile, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has expressed doubts about the safety of the vaccine administered by Trump.
“I would say I can’t trust Donald Trump and he should be a reliable source of information that talks about effectiveness and the credibility of whoever he is talking to,” Harris told CNN in early September.
David Arrow and Brooke Singman of Fox News contributed to this report.
