Americans are divided on the next coronavirus vaccine, as only 51% say they would be vaccinated if a vaccine were available today, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center.
That’s a 21% drop from May, while 72% of Americans said they would definitely or probably get vaccinated.
The percentage that says they will definitely get vaccinated has been cut in half to just 21%.
Most of the concerns are that the vaccine may not be safe, as 77% of Americans believe it will be approved before the safety and efficacy are fully understood.
Very fast coronavirus vaccine dose for ‘every American’ by April
In an effort to allay those fears, the CEOs of nine drug companies earlier this month vowed to “clarify their commitment to developing and testing a potential vaccine for Covid-19 in accordance with high ethical standards and sound scientific principles.”
President Trump said Friday that the United States will have at least 100 million doses of the vaccine by the end of this year and enough doses for “every American” by April 2021.
“Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month and we expect every American to get enough vaccines by April and again at that stage, the delivery will move forward as fast as it comes,” he told reporters. White House.
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It is a significantly faster timeline than the time put forward by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Director Robert Redfield said Wednesday that he believes the general public will not receive the vaccine until next summer, but first-year respondents and others who need it most may be available in a “very limited supply” later this year.
“If you ask me when it will be available to the American public in general, we can start taking advantage of the vaccine to get back into our regular lives, I think we’re probably looking at a third, finally a second quarter. , Third Quarter 2021, ”Redfield told the Senate Applications Committee.
Trump said Wednesday that Redfield had “made a mistake” and “misinformed.”
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The country’s top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fawcett predicted this week that we will see the vaccine in November or December.
There were 6,713,179 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 198,407 deaths in the United States as of Friday evening, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
