US unlikely to have millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine by fall

Scott Gottlieb, MD, former commissioner of the FDA, expressed doubt that necessary large-scale manufacturing of a COVID-19 vaccine would be available by the fall but was optimistic that inoculations could be available by 2021. Gottlieb discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s response to the virus at the virtual American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.
“Assuming that mass inoculations will begin at some point in a good case scenario of late 2021, not in 2020, then we’ll probably be vaccinating at the same point we vaccinate for flu (Read more...)

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