Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a 'miracle' to be right.

NBC ^ | May 15, 2020 | Jane C. Timm

[conservative98]

“There’s a lot of things that could go wrong,” one expert said.

President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months, an accelerated timeline that prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers say is unlikely absent a miracle.

"We're looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before," Trump said Friday during in a Rose Garden event centered on his administration's efforts to fast-track a vaccine.

“Vaccine work is looking VERY promising, before end of year,” Trump tweeted on Thursday.

“I think we’re going to have a vaccine by the end of the year,” he told reporters later in the day.

But experts say that the development, testing and production of a vaccine for the public is still at least 12 to 18 months off, and that anything less would be a medical miracle.

“I think it’s possible you could see a vaccine in people’s arms next year — by the middle or end of next year. But this is unprecedented, so it’s hard to predict,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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He said vaccine development typically takes decades

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Dr. Walter Orenstein, a professor at Emory University and the associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center, said a vaccine in less than a year would be “miracle.”

While technically possible, he added, it is unlikely.

“There’s a lot of things that could go wrong,” Orenstein said.

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“In the best of circumstances, we should have a vaccine — or let's say vaccines — between 12 and 18 months," he said. "Whether those circumstances will be the best or not, we don’t know."

Trump's own top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told the "Today" show that January 2021 is the earliest a vaccine could be ready, but cautioned that that timeline is "aspirational" and depends on companies producing a vaccine before researchers are sure it will work.

Pressed on the issue at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Fauci said again that while he was cautiously optimistic, “there’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective."

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May 15, 2020

[conservative98]

Kayleigh McEnany Retweeted

.@NBCNews, May 15th: “Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a ‘miracle’ to be right.”

Dr. Fauci, November 9th: “We would be giving vaccine to people very likely before the end of this year.” ⬇️ https://t.co/YVfxOdlYWZ— Chad Gilmartin (@ChadGilmartinCA) November 10, 2020

[pangaea6]

Another Trump miracle and magic wand! And another instance of MSM poo poo’ing anything good trump with so called experts opinions.

[conservative98]

May 15th Fauci: no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective.

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The @WhiteHouse Coronavirus Task Force met today to discuss BIG news out of @pfizer this morning. Under President @realDonaldTrump, we are working at Warp Speed to deliver a Safe & Effective vaccine. This President is DELIVERING for the American People. https://t.co/TNzizWj6Ka pic.twitter.com/4CEypaS6wI— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) November 9, 2020

HUGE NEWS: Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President @realDonaldTrump, @pfizer announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90% of its volunteers.— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) November 9, 2020

[chopperk]

An expert at NBC? You must be kidding................

[conservative98]

AUG 7 2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci says chance of coronavirus vaccine being highly effective is ‘not great’

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/coronavirus-vaccine-dr-fauci-says-chances-of-it-being-highly-effective-is-not-great.html

Scientists are hoping for a coronavirus vaccine that is at least 75% effective, but 50% or 60% effective would be acceptable, too, he said

[dhs12345]

I would trust anything from the MSM. They have no credibility.

[dhs12345]

Wouldn’t

[conservative98]

Jane C. Timm (NBC News, a grotesque propaganda operation)
@janestreet
Fact checking politicians (I only fact check Republicans) and telling stories (lies) about voting rights
@nbcnews . Please scream inside your heart (because I am another media propagandist for the hate America left Democrats.) nbcnews.com

https://twitter.com/janestreet

[Sgt_Schultze]

The Pfizer CEO sold 60% of his shares after successful vaccine trials in August, but we’re just finding out about it AFTER the election

[Thank You Rush]

Must be talking about the “Biden” vaccine, right?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Original from May:

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[Sacajaweau]

Fauci said it 10 times....maybe more. Later he started saying....but no one will get it until 2021...than pushed it to May...June...

[fortheDeclaration]

We are being held hostage by this idiotic virus that kills hardly anyone.