U.S. likely to have enough COVID-19 vaccines for all vulnerable Americans by year end - official

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The U.S is likely to have enough safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines available to inoculate the most vulnerable Americans by the end of 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said

The U.S. government is “cautiously optimistic” that one or two vaccines, likely from Pfizer Inc or Moderna Inc, will be available by the end of the year and can begin to be distributed to Americans, officials said during a news conference.

Azar said he expects all seniors, healthcare workers, and first responders will be able to receive a vaccine as soon as January, with the rest of the American public able to get a vaccine by April. Companies participating in the U.S. government’s effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, dubbed Operation Warp Speed, have begun developing manufacturing capabilities even before any vaccinations have been authorized by regulators.

In an open letter published last week, Pfizer said it is unlikely to have enough data to submit for a U.S. regulatory authorization until late November, after the U.S. presidential election. The coronavirus outbreak has been worsening in recent weeks as cold weather pushes Americans indoors, raising the chance of contracting the virus. Some 38 U.S. states and two territories have reported rising case counts. More than 8 million Americans have been infected with the novel coronavirus and more than 200,000 have died.

 

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Not so fast LIARS!! The Convirus Hoax is an IQ Test and we aint done awakening the masses!! No vaxx needed!!!

Hang on... didn’t I see CDC data where 70%+ people hospitalised with covid wore masks?

Absolute desperation to get everyone wearing a mask. Italy’s current resurgent wave has shown that masks make no real difference and may even encourage a lack of caution in terms of distancing.

How to end the COVID-19 pandemic StopCovid GreatLockdown

WHO says no!

Unmmm ... and if reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit, let me break it down: CDC’s study on cloth face coverings — they do NOT prevent the transmission of this (or any other) virus. wash your hands & stay home if you’re feeling sick!

Am I going blind? Is that an ACTUAL CDC Briefing? I think 🤔 I need glasses 🤓.

Oh, cases are increasing because people are spending more time indoors? Something's very retarded in this world...

Ok, sure, wear a mask, yada yada

This from my rural hometown newspaper

A new report from Columbia University on COVID-19 deaths estimates that hundreds of thousands of Americans died because the United States’ response to the pandemic was an “abject failure,” particularly the actions of President Donald Trump.

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Well, I just watched 'Totally Under Control' on Hulu and now I know not to believe a damn thing Azar says. 🤷🏼‍♀️

THE CORBETT REPORT Should anyone still not understand what is happening, listen to JamesCorbett about KlausSchwab's TheGreatReset that will impose his psychopathy on the whole humanity as collective psychopathy aka neoliberalism/fascism.

check this out

Bullshit!

maskdontwork takeoffyourmask

So this has been a bad idea?

No thanks.

Vaccines can defend virus, but it can't defeat virus sources.

Which Vaccine? I will wait until it is updated on the CDC and NIH website.

I gotta stop following 🙄🙄

I personally know someone who can dispute this article and Alex Azar. Did you do any background on this

Well that’s lovely. I’ll wait till infectious disease experts, scientists, doctors and Dr. Fauci tell me it’s safe.

Did you fact check this article? I personally know someone involved in this process and it is patently false!!

uh we're gonna need a name on that quote Reuters

No, by end of 2021...

Yeah, but no plan yet on how to distribute it.

I think once we vaccinate the vulnerable and health care worker - obviously police, we need to include teachers ASAP

Fake news!!!!!!!!!!!

Bullshit

Except that Azar is a serial liar and fool. Other than that, no problem

Meanwhile.....

Sure. When it ACTUALLY happens that they have an ACTUAL vaccine, then and only then will I pay more attention. May not get one right away, however.

As long as Trump is president, I don't trust the CDC. No way.

Lies.

How? They haven’t got one yet, and it’s already coming up on November 🙄 More desperate bullshit from an administration that lies about everything.

And we should believe him, why?

Bull!

Go inoculate yourself first...

This seems very much like fake news.....maybe a lie

Funny, I thought the vaccine was going to be here in October.

I don't believe him.

Just another Republican lie. Republicans lie and Americans die.

They are developing a national mental health hotline. Dial 988. It won’t be functional until 2022. But a Covid vaccine will be ready in 2 1/2 months.RIIIIIIGHT.

Break on through to the other side, who is the most vulnerable? In this White House it’s the Friends and family plan, and Atar toured a swab facility in Maine without a mask . They closed the next day the whole factory to disinfect. And yes, when T wasn’t looking he wore it

1 in 3 Americans have a preexisting condition. So will we have 110 million vaccines by 12/31/2020. I am skeptical.

Good news

Different info coming from pharma and CDC

Sure. I totally believe a 100% proven partisan hack to tell the truth when this Administration has lied since February about every important development in the pandemic. This is just happy election talk.

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