CDC Chief Predicts Covid-19 Vaccine May Not Be Generally Available Until Next Summer

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A top Trump administration health official predicted that a Covid-19 vaccine may not be available to the general public until next summer

as the daily number of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. climbed to roughly 40,000.

The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, said he believes a vaccine will be available to the general public in the late second quarter or third quarter of 2021. At a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Dr. Redfield said the vaccine would be...

 

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That is political BS. It would appear we are dealing with political opportunists not scientists at CDC.

Anonymous sources, again....

Trump is instigating herd immunity policy and Atlas says it's going great because so many people are infected, getting us closer to the 70% of the population required to be infected and recover from it. That's 215 million cases and 7 million dead. WHERE IS THE 25TH!?

NY 0 deaths and 0 cases Everyone check your state out in John Hopkins Map on COVID Cases going down little hospitalizations

Any update on timeliness of death reporting? Appears to be a lag so that deaths get bundled from prior days. CDC appears to be around 5% positivity rate but what is it with 52k? Any word on probability of false positives?

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Yeah and Trump shit on him for saying it so now he’s crawling out from under the bus and back to daddy on twitter. CDCDirector

So did a top Biden aide

That’s weird our cases are going down here in GA.

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