Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Fauci doubts COVID-19 vaccine will be ready by Nov.


BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin has said he is optimistic that the company's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, being co-developed with Pfizer, will be ready for regulatory approval by mid-October or early November. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, however, said a COVID-19 vaccine is unlikely to be ready by Election Day, noting "the only way you can see that scenario come true is if there are so many infections in the clinical trial sites that you get an efficacy answer sooner than you would have projected."

Full Story: CNN (9/9),  The Hill (9/8) 

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