Head of Operation Warp Speed says vaccine could be widely available by June
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
PSPS
(13,577 posts)Sorry, mister doctor guy, I'll wait until someone not associated with trump's criminal gang gives the go-ahead.
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.
What if the trial never starts again because it's poison?
patphil
(6,144 posts)then they will have to modify their production processes, and that will mean starting over with the safety and efficacy trials.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I hope that they are right and we get this thing put back into it's box.
rzemanfl
(29,554 posts)I dont trust anything this administration does
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)TomCADem
(17,380 posts)Nt
Archae
(46,298 posts)Squinch
(50,901 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)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
(11,791 posts)I'll take a vaccine here.
Javaman
(62,497 posts)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
(23,138 posts)Thats the old estimate from the beginning.
Harker
(13,957 posts)Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)Then move up to human testing.