Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease official, says it will be 'well into 2021' before the U.S. returns to normal from the coronavirus by theothersarahh
this week that a vaccine will be ready in time for November’s election, but Fauci has said such an accelerated timeline is not realistic.
Fauci said Friday it’s possible that a vaccine could be available by the end of this year or early 2021. Manufacturing the vaccine in large quantities and distributing it to the majority of the population will take significantly longer, however, meaning that returning to “normal” life—including indoor and enclosed activities like movie theaters—won’t happen until the middle or end of next year.
Fauci on Friday also refuted Trump’s comments Thursday that the U.S. is “rounding the corner” on coronavirus, characterizing the current data on the virus, which shows about 40,000 new cases and 1,000 deaths a day, as “disturbing.” During a discussion with doctors from Harvard Medical School on Thursday, Fauci said the U.S. needs to prepare to “hunker down” this fall and winter and warned against looking only at the “rosy side of things,” CNBC"If you're talking about getting back to a degree of normality, which resembles where we were prior to COVID, it's gonna be well into 2021,” Fauci said. “Maybe even towards the end of 2021.
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