Is it really possible we could have a coronavirus vaccine by November? Doctors who are running the clinical trials would know best, and they don't think so.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking states to get ready to distribute a coronavirus vaccine by as early as next month. The CEO of Pfizer says he thinks it's possible his company will have enough data to ask the US Food and Drug Administration for authorization by October.
And officials inside the FDA have told CNN that Trump has consistently pressed agencies to speed up their timeline for developing a vaccine so he can have a vaccine victory by Election Day.Is it really possible we could have a coronavirus vaccine by November?Doctors who are running the clinical trials would know best, and they don't think so.There's a legitimate way to end coronavirus vaccine trials early, Fauci says"Do the simple math," said Dr.
Experts doubt vaccine will be ready by Election Day 02:01The people making that decision are the Data and Safety Monitoring Board. That's an independent group of experts -- separate from the company making the vaccine, separate from the doctors running the clinical trials and separate from the federal government -- who get to peek at the data early."They are there to protect the safety and to define the accuracy of the vaccine," Corey said.
"The irony of this is you may, by the end of the year, have a safe vaccine. But you have an administration that hasn't garnered a lot of trust," he said. "Maybe we will have a safe and effective vaccine but people still won't trust it because they don't trust the way the administration has handled science. That would be the ultimate irony.
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