Forøvrig siste uttalelser fra Fauci om når en vaksine kan ventes - stor usikkerhet:
Certain companies, including ambitious biotech Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), are making good time putting their vaccine candidates through clinical trials. Yet Fauci, the high-profile director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, doubts that even efforts such as Moderna’s will yield a vaccine that will go into use by the end of 2020.
“I’m a little skeptical about that, but, you know, anything is possible,” he said.
Fauci’s skepticism is based on the processes vaccines have to undergo before coming to market, including comprehensive testing in phase 3 trials and regulatory review. Even when the latter is fast-tracked, it can still be a cumbersome process.
Another problem is production; no matter how prepared a manufacturer might be or how efficient its manufacturing partners, it takes time to produce millions of doses of any vaccine or medication – particularly if it is new.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/fauci%3A-coronavirus-vaccine-likely-not-widely-available-until-several-months-into-2021-2020
En artikkel fra BBC denne uken sier følgende (https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51665497):
When will we have a coronavirus vaccine?
A vaccine would normally take years, if not decades, to develop. Researchers hope to achieve the same amount of work in only a few months.
Most experts think a vaccine is likely to become widely available by mid-2021, about 12-18 months after the new virus, known officially as Sars-CoV-2, first emerged.
That would be a huge scientific feat and there are no guarantees it will work.
Four coronaviruses already circulate in human beings. They cause common cold symptoms and we don’t have vaccines for any of them.