Most Americans are recovering another year from the current pandemic. Researchers recently said that most people will not receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine until the spring or summer of 2021.
Specialists and scientists told Bloomberg that healthcare professionals and high-risk patients will be the first recipients of the coronavirus vaccine. Businesses, children and families may have to wait even longer to receive the vaccine
Dr Anthony Fauci – who works with the White House Coronavirus Task Force – told Bloomberg that it might not be until 2021 for faxes to reach the general public.
“I would hope that by the time we get well into the second half of 2021, the companies will have delivered the hundreds of millions of doses they have promised,” Fauci said.
But why? Health regulators do not have high levels of data on effectiveness for humans, so it is unlikely they will want to spread it too far. Current products also require two doses, which can limit the number of early deliveries in the early days. And there is no government plan on how to distribute the faxes.
“For three, up to six, up to nine months, there will be more people wanting a fax than there are faxes,” Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna Inc., told Bloomberg.
At present, faxes remain in the trail phase, so it is unclear when or when one fax will be ready. We have to wait for the results of those clinical trials before everything is confirmed. The race to find a vaccine continues and experts still expect one to drop in early 2021, as I wrote for Deseret.com.
That said, drugmakers have begun planning for production of the vaccine to begin at the end of the summer. Mass production will look to deliver a fax to more than 300 million people, as I wrote for Deseret.com.
“Exactly when will vaccination materials be in production and manufacturing? It’s probably four to six weeks away, “an unnamed official told CNBC. “But we will be actively producing at the end of the summer.”
