No Coronavirus Vaccine Likely By Year’s End, Fauci Says

In an online Q&A with the Washington Post, Dr. Anthony Fauci said there may be convincing information by the end of the year on which of the many vaccines now in development are safe, and early next year there could be tens of millions of doses available, but he does not see wide availability — counted in the hundreds of millions of doses — of a successful vaccine until “several months in” to 2021.

The economies of the United States and other countries have largely been in a holding pattern with everything from air travel to movie-going in limbo as people stay home.

Fauci also said states hit hard by a recent surge in coronavirus cases should halt or pause their reopening plans — a move some states already have taken, including hard-hit Texas, which has paused what was one of the more aggressive reopening programs.

He said hard-hit states can serve as an example of “what happens when you open too quickly.”

Fauci, whose counsel has sometimes been at odds with President Trump’s often-stated desire to get the economy back open quickly, said in the interview that he’s been receiving “serious threats” against his life and his family and now has a personal security detail assigned to him.