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- Two coronavirus vaccines have shown impressive interim results, with Pfizer and Moderna both reporting vaccine efficacy exceeding 90%.
- The companies will soon seek emergency use approval and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns might start in the US as soon as December.
- Commenting on vaccine results and the plan for the coming months, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that there is one thing that might delay the rollout of vaccines in the US: Trump's refusal to accept the outcome of the presidential election.
Moderna on Monday became the second vaccine developer to announce that an experimental coronavirus vaccine could prevent infection in more than 9 out of 10 people. According to interim data, Moderna’s drug has an efficacy of 94.5%, which is slightly higher than Pfizer and BioNTech’s interim results. Both drugs will seek Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA in the coming weeks, assuming the final efficacy and safety results are satisfactory. At that point, both companies will have millions of doses ready for emergency use, and well over one billion doses will be manufactured between them in 2021. Other vaccines in Phase 3 trials might also report results soon, and they could be ready for EUA applications as well. Things could still go wrong with any of these experimental drugs, but the promising results shown so far during various testing stages indicate that immunization campaigns are closer than ever.
With all that in mind, Dr. Anthony Fauci warns us that there’s only one development that might delay the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the US. And sadly, it has nothing to do with the actual vaccine research or the complex logistics behind deploying the drugs across the country.
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