Dr. Fauci: ‘I’m Cautiously Optimistic’ that We Will Have a Vaccine by the End of the Year

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FAUCI: “But the good news is that there’s more than one candidate out there, and they’re going to be entering into a broader phase three trial to truly determine efficacy and also continued work on safety. One of them is going to go into phase three trial at the end of this month, at the end of July. And that’s something that we hope over a period of several months since it’s going to be a large trial of 30,000 individuals, 30,000 volunteers, that with the degree of infection that is still ongoing in the community, we feel we’ll be able to get an answer in the timetable that you just mentioned towards the end of this calendar year and in the very beginning of 2021. When we get that, I believe and I’m cautiously optimistic about it, that we will have a vaccine that we’ll be able to start distributing to people in this country."