CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN/VACCINES: [Stacey Vanek Smith: “Having a vaccine before the end of the year, does that seem realistic?”]
“No, it doesn’t… What you don’t want to have happen is you don’t want the [Trump] administration to reach their hand into the Warp Speed bucket where there are tens of millions of doses, pull out one or more [coronavirus] vaccines and say, look; it’s been tested a in few thousand people. We know it induces an immune response without knowing whether or not it’s effective and then putting it out into the American public. That would be a mistake.”
-Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, as quoted by Stacey Vanek Smith, “FDA Adviser: Not Realistic To Expect A COVID-19 Vaccine In 2020,” npr.org, Aug. 5, 2020