Anthony Fauci told CBS News Wednesday it’s “possible to shave a couple of months off” his earlier projection that it would take 12-18 months until a novel coronavirus vaccine would be widely available. But he cautioned he didn’t want to over-promise and it’s “premature” to discuss vaccine trials’ data “except to say there have been no glitches.”
The top U.S. infectious disease expert said the timetable for reopening economies would vary. “The success or failure of that rolling re-entry program … would be the capability of being able to test, identify, isolate, get someone who is infected out of circulation and do a degree of contact tracing,” he said.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel told Goldman Sachs its vaccine could possibly be used for emergency use for “some people, possibly including health care professionals, in the fall of 2020,” and the company is scaling up production to millions of doses per month, Herman notes.
See Axios.