Fauci Testifies at Senate Committee Hearing While noting that plans to produce doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidates will be undertaken "at risk," in advance of approval to allow speedy distribution, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, MD, also told members of the US Senate that a vaccine or a treatment is unlikely to be available in the next 3 months. The idea of having treatments or a vaccine available for the beginning of the fall school term "would be a bit of a bridge too far," Fauci testified via video conference Tuesday before the US Senate...