Dr. Fauci’s new COVID vaccine timeline is fantastic news

[Andy Meek]

• White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has a new estimation for when he thinks otherwise healthy people can expect to receive the COVID vaccine.
• He thinks around the end of March or the beginning of April, healthy people would start to get access to the vaccine.
• That timing, however, depends upon the success of the overall vaccine rollout, according to Dr. Fauci.

Just days after the FDA approved an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine, with vaccinations having gotten underway around the country already, the federal agency is expected to authorize the use of a second vaccine maker's drug on Friday. The COVID vaccine from Moderna is next up, and new data about it that was released on Tuesday shows that it offers significant protection from the coronavirus. Data included in the FDA's review of Moderna's vaccine candidate, for example, confirms the company's earlier finding that the vaccine had an efficacy rate of a little more than 94% in a trial of some 30,000 people, with side effects including fever and headaches that weren't found to be dangerous.

According to the current prioritization plans, people like health care workers as well as older people and those with co-morbidities are set to receive a coronavirus vaccine injection first, before everyone else. However, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has just shared some fantastic news for otherwise healthy people who previously thought they would be waiting in line for a while before they, too, could get vaccinated.

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