"Deploying the vaccine to people in the US and around the world will test and strain distribution networks, the supply chain, public trust and global cooperation. It will take months or, more likely, years to reach enough people to make the world safe.” washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08…
“Experts inside and outside the government still say they fear the White House will push the FDA to overlook insufficient data and give at least limited emergency approval to a vaccine … before the vote on Nov. 3.” nytimes.com/2020/08/02/us/…
State officials and health experts tell The Washington Post that they remain in the dark on key details of how the Trump administration plans to deliver 300 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine to Americans. washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08…
The US government's coronavirus vaccine czar Moncef Slaoui says he expects a coronavirus vaccine to become widely available to most Americans in the second quarter of 2021.
Slaoui’s timeline mirrors what other experts have said.
businessinsider.com/moncef-slaoui-…
(Reuters) - A top U.S. health regulator who will help decide the fate of a coronavirus vaccine has vowed to resign if the Trump administration approves a vaccine before it is shown to be safe and effective, Reuters has learned. reuters.com/article/us-hea…
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn tells the Financial Times he is prepared to authorize a coronavirus vaccine before Phase 3 clinical trials are complete if he thinks the benefits outweigh the risks.
Hahn says he wouldn't authorize a vaccine to please Trump.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday said it will not join a global effort co-led by the World Health Organization to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine.
washingtonpost.com/world/coronavi…
“Health departments that have been underfunded for decades say they currently lack the staff, money and tools to educate people about vaccines and then to distribute, administer and track hundreds of millions of doses.” khn.org/news/health-of…
The FDA is scheduled to meet with its vaccine advisory committee to discuss coronavirus vaccines on Oct. 22.
The agenda, as of now, says it will talk about “the development, authorization and/or licensure of vaccines.”
washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09…
"The WHO does not expect widespread vaccinations against Covid-19 until the middle of next year…None of the candidate vaccines in advanced clinical trials so far has demonstrated a 'clear signal' of efficacy at the level of at least 50%” cnbc.com/2020/09/04/who…
The US government’s coronavirus vaccine czar Moncef Slaoui says a coronavirus vaccine by October or November is “extremely unlikely.”
Slaoui said he “firmly” believed a vaccine could be ready by year’s end, with enough doses for 20-25 million Americans.
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Fauci on distributing a coronavirus vaccine:
“By the time you mobilize the distribution of the vaccinations, and you get the majority or more of the population vaccinated and protected, that's likely not going to happen until the mid or end of 2021."
OSTERHOLM: "When the vaccine does become available—it won't be in any meaningful way until the beginning of next year—…it's still going to take us months to vaccinate the population of just this country…We really have another 12-14 months…ahead of us.”
CDC Director Robert Redfield on when a coronavirus vaccine will be widely available to Americans:
“If you’re asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American public … I think we’re probably looking at third — late second quarter, third quarter, 2021."
Redfield spokesperson contradicts Redfield testimony:
“He was not referring to the time period when COVID-19 vaccine doses would be made available to all Americans.”
Redfield earlier today:
The CDC has been seeking $6 billion from Congress for the past two months to maintain and distribute doses of a coronavirus vaccine.
Congress has yet to provide the funds as talks on a broader coronavirus relief package have stalled.
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TRUMP: “We expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April."
SCOTT GOTTLIEB: "I do not believe that a vaccine will be licensed for general use by the population until, in an optimistic scenario, really the second quarter, probably the end of the second quarter in 2021 and perhaps a little later than that.”
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