CDC director says coronavirus vaccine won’t be widely available until late 2021

The estimation runs counter to Donald Trump’s recent messaging that a vaccine will be available ‘in a matter of weeks’

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has told a Senate panel that he thinks it will take one year before a coronavirus vaccine will be “generally available to the American public”.

That estimation contrasts with recent bullish messaging by Donald Trump, who on Tuesday repeated his assertion that “we’re going to have a vaccine in a matter of weeks” even though a successful vaccine has yet to be unveiled from ongoing US trials, and attacked the CDC director on Wednesday as “confused” about the timeline.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3mtisAB