At this point, how confident are you that we will see a successful vaccine developed for COVID-19?” Washington Bureau Reporter Samantha Manning asked Fauci.
“There is never a guarantee that a vaccine will work,” Fauci said. “Our experience throughout decades of vaccinology tell you that the parameters thus far are suggesting some cautious optimism but you don’t know until you do it.”
Vaccinologists around the world are working on it.
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That’s a bit different to shelter in place and wait for the vaccine. In the meantime we expect nurses, factory workers, grocery shop assistants and postmen to work......or we head into total deprivation. Why are their lives less valuable?
We don’t know if there will be a vaccine and if we do, whether it will be largely hit and miss like flu vaccines. So we need an interim economy.....not wide open, still protective but engaging the majority not at risk . And we need to build immunity.