'Having a vaccine and proving that a vaccine is safe and effective are two different things,' Dr. Fauci told ABC News. “We have a way of doing things in this country where we care about safety and we care about efficacy.”
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades and an expert on pandemics for the last four decades, has weighed in on recent news that Russia has developed a vaccine, and is ready to start inoculating people with it.
“I hope that the Russians have actually, definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective,” Fauci said. “I seriously doubt that they’ve done that.” He added, “We have a way of doing things in this country where we care about safety and we care about efficacy.” Fauci previously said he was hopeful that a coronavirus vaccine could be developed by early 2021, but he said that it’s unlikely that a vaccine will deliver 100% immunity; he said the best realistic outcome, based on other vaccines, would be 70% to 75% effective.
Previous studies have found that, on average, the flu vaccine is about 50% to 60% effective for healthy adults aged 18 to 64. “The vaccine may sometimes be less effective,” it said. “Even when the vaccine doesn’t completely prevent the flu, it may lessen the severity of your illness.”
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