President Trump said Sunday he believes a vaccine will be available by January, a timeline that is months ahead of what some experts have said is possible.
“We are very confident that we’re going to have a vaccine at the end of the year,” Trump said during a Fox News virtual town hall.
Trump’s comments came several days after Bloomberg reported the Trump administration had launched a project known as “Operation Warp Speed” to expedite the normally slow vaccine research and production process.
The goal, according to Bloomberg, is to have 300 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by January. To accomplish that, the government will shoulder much of the financial risk of drug companies and pay for the research and production of multiple vaccines, knowing that several might fail.
The manufacturing of the vaccine candidates would begin before it’s known if they work. The result could be millions of unusable doses but — hopefully — at least one successful candidate.
Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NBC’s Today Show he believes it’s possible to have hundreds of millions of doses ready by January.
“I’m obviously part of the team that’s involved in that,” Fauci said. “… I think that is doable if things fall in the right place.”
Fauci emphasized the importance of getting “a vaccine that is safe, and…
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