Posted on 08/08/2020 9:56:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An approved coronavirus vaccine could end up being effective only 50-60% of the time, meaning public health measures will still be needed to keep the pandemic under control, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious diseases expert, said on Friday.
"We don't know yet what the efficacy might be. We don't know if it will be 50% or 60%. I'd like it to be 75% or more," Fauci said in a webinar hosted by Brown University. "But the chances of it being 98% effective is not great, which means you must never abandon the public health approach."
The novel coronavirus has infected nearly 5 million people in the United States and killed more than 160,000.
Lockdown measures imposed to keep the virus from spreading have devastated the economy, which suffered its biggest blow since the Great Depression in the second quarter, with gross domestic product dropping at its steepest pace in at least 73 years.
As infections have spiked around the country after states started to open up, public health experts, including Fauci, have stressed the importance of steps that each American can take, including social distancing, washing hands and wearing masks.
Fauci said on Friday that studies of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine could produce definitive data in November or December of this year.
He told Reuters earlier this week that he expects tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to be available by early 2021, and a billion doses by the end of that year.
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There will be NO MORE problems in America and the world after November :)
God forbid.
If we had a real press, someone would’ve long ago asked him point-blank if he stood to gain from any therapeurics related to this virus.
It would be a blessing to all Americans if he succumbed to his beloved Covid.
Pessimistic even with an effective vaccine. If a vaccine was actually as effective as his worst case scenario that’s still pretty good to get that many people immune - not only to make them personally immune but to reduce transmission rates.
The seasonal flu vaccine has been rated 40% to 50% “effective” over the last 2 years. The economy hasn’t been shutdown for a vaccine that is less than 60% effective.
But Dr Fauci is only partially correct in his prognostications part of the time.
Nonsense. There will be a 100% effective cure on November 3, 2020.
Hooray for common sense!
Someone should as Fauci how effective his HIV/AIDS vaccine is.
Oh, there is no HIV/AIDS vaccine 38-plus years after he said one would be available in two years.
When are we going to recognize that Fauci is a fraud?!
Writing edicts to support the lies that created the fake disease designed to manipulate the impressionable into a gulag mindset intended to accommodate the government office holders further unconstitutional actions of ensuring forced and dangerous vaccinations on the citizens by using military troops to administer them is meaningless in a nation of laws.
These vaccinations are also intended to provide an increase in the wealth of all conspirators involved in this collusion to oppress the populace through forced vaccination with questionable substances created by the companies they are invested in thereby rendering citizens as a marketable item transforming Free People into slaves.
The shrimp, Fauci, demon-rat mini-dictators, the Chinese government, Gates, Soros and the rest of the deep sate demon-rats need to all be arrested for war crimes for unleashing a bioweapon on US citizens in an attempt to destroy America and throw the election.
Drove up around Portland last night and the terrorists are taking over entire roads now. They have thrown spikes in the streets, they are attacking any cars that enter, they have guns, lasers and explosives. There were 4 shootings in one hour. The local new doesn’t know whether to sh&t or go blind. Needless to say, we didn’t hang around long. Just wanted to see how bad it really was. They are destroying any cars around and people are afraid to go out. The Portland banana republic is alive and well and they are going to get mail in ballots counted there? What a joke.
And then it may not. Or it may. Or maybe he should just shut up! He’s already a TV celebrity. What more does he want? A book deal?
A job as medical adviser for cnn?
Exactly - and that many people getting immune does indeed, obviously, make them immune and that is a substantial part of the population that cannot transmit the flu to those who are not immune. It’s ridiculous for him to claim that wouldn’t be effective.
FauXi favors face diapers FOREVER.
Not sure about Fake-shi's perspective, but I'm pretty sure he'd been told to make US feel like the glass is always half-empty (or 3/4 empty, or completely empty). Psy-ops, pure and simple.
Partially effective, just like the masks, if that.
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