The director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Sunday discussed the possibility of a 50 percent effective coronavirus vaccine, saying it “would be better than what we have.”
Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, Tom Inglesby discussed comments from Anthony Fauci
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“I think we’d take 50 percent, because 50 percent would be a lot better than what we have now,” Inglesby told NBC’s Chuck Todd
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“We will have to see what we get, for how long … to have a vaccine that is 50 percent effective in the coming months as early as 2021 would be phenomenal,” he added, emphasizing that a 50 percent effective vaccine would not be ideal.
Inglesby also handled talks for the re-imposition of tax measures as cases of the virus occurring.
“I do not think we are stupid, I think we know what to do, other countries have done it,” he said. “We know that in other countries universal masking, physical distance, larger meetings occur, that such things work. If we act together in national unison, we can get there. ”
“Masks are not the solution in themselves, but they are a critical part of it,” he added.
Test capacity, he said, remains a major obstacle. Inglesby called weekly turnaround times for diagnostic test results “unacceptable”, adding “it is not useful at this point.”
His remarks come as the U.S. reported 5 million coronavirus cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data, and 162,000 related deaths.
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