Head of Operation Warp Speed says vaccine could be widely available by June

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Source: ABC News

Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the head of the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed effort to accelerate a vaccine rollout, told ABC News Wednesday that a vaccine could be widely available by June 2021.

"It's a plan, it's not a certainty," Slaoui told ABC News' Bob Woodruff. "But the plan should make it such that by June everybody could have been immunized in the United States. We will have enough vaccine doses. I really hope most people will take the vaccines."

He added there are two vaccines in Phase 3 trials that are on hold, "and they are imminently going to have the hold lifted," referring to the fact that AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have paused their trials. While this "does have an impact" on speed, Slaoui added, "that's fine, because the number one priority is safety of course."

"If that means the trial has to stop for a month ... that's what we'll do," he said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/live-updates/coronavirus/?id=73730458#73744578

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1. LOL "I really hope most people will take the vaccines."

Sorry, mister doctor guy, I'll wait until someone not associated with trump's criminal gang gives the go-ahead.

He added there are two vaccines in Phase 3 trials that are on hold, "and they are imminently going to have the hold lifted," referring to the fact that AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have paused their trials.

Here he reveals his inner-weasel. How can he predict "they are imminently going to have the hold lifted?" Doesn't that kind of, um, you know, obviate the reason for the "hold" in the first place? Many vaccines never get released because the reason that triggered the hold indicates it's either not safe or not effective, or both.

Just more nonsensical blathering by a fake person purely for political reasons. Next, I suppose he's start saying masks don't work and herd immunity is the panacea.

"If that means the trial has to stop for a month ... that's what we'll do," he said.

What if the trial never starts again because it's poison?

[patphil]

5. If the issues are related to contaminates from the production process in the vaccine,

then they will have to modify their production processes, and that will mean starting over with the safety and efficacy trials.

[Sherman A1]

2. Some good news

I hope that they are right and we get this thing put back into it's box.

[rzemanfl]

3. Yeah, like I am going to believe the Drumpf administration about anything. n/t

[Rebl2]

13. Exactly

I don’t trust anything this administration does

[uppityperson]

4. Looking forward to a science based vaccine

[TomCADem]

6. But Trump Promised It Would Be Ready Next Week?

Nt

[Archae]

14. I don't take Donald Trump to tell me what color the sky is.

[Squinch]

7. I'll wait. Thanks.

[DetlefK]

8. That's not Warp Speed. That's slower than the british scientists working on COVID.

British scientists are currently developing a promising vaccine and have estimated to have it ready by spring 2021.

"Operation Warp Speed" is as fast as the others at best and even slower at worst.

[a la izquierda]

15. I'm so happy I'm in England and will be this coming year.

I'll take a vaccine here.

[Javaman]

9. yeah, and it could not be as well.

just another fuck head paid by the orange asshole so the orange asshole can try and take credit if and when a vaccine is created.

fuck off you water carrying asshole.

[truthisfreedom]

10. Nothing new there.

That’s the old estimate from the beginning.

[Harker]

11. Warped speed. n/t

[Grokenstein]

12. First, test it on members of the Trump administration.

Then move up to human testing.

[Illumination]

16. I will take a C-19 vaccine that my doctor, Biden & Fauci recommend...