As U.S. infections near 5 million, Anthony Fauci says public should temper expectations on COVID-19 vaccine. 'The chances of it being 98% are not great, which means you must never abandon the public-health approach.'
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades and an expert on pandemics for the last four decades, has been optimistic on a vaccine arriving at the end of 2020 or in early 2021, but he has also cautioned the public on their expectations for the effectiveness of any vaccine that is developed.
“ ‘The chances of it being 98% are not great. Which means you must never abandon the public-health approach.’ ” Fauci advocates face masks, social distancing and avoiding bars and indoor spaces with crowds. “If we do those things — and I’m going to repeat it until I’m exhausted — those things work,” he said on Friday’s live stream. “When you have something that needs everybody pulling at the same time, if you have one weak link in there that doesn’t do it, it doesn’t allow you to get to the end game.”
Related: Feeling lax about masks? Think again. Here’s how many lives could be saved if everyone wore a mask — starting today “What we’ve seen during the pandemic is a lot of preprints and press releases,” Hahn said in a separate interview with the medical journal JAMA. “We can’t make a decision based upon a preprint or a press release, and that’s because we insist upon seeing all of the raw clinical trial data.” Traditionally, such research goes through a peer-review vetting process before publication.
“It appears that people are wearing masks and socially distancing more frequently as infections increase, then after a while as infections drop, people let their guard down and stop taking these measures to protect themselves and others which, of course, leads to more infections,” HME director Christopher Murray said, “and the potentially deadly cycle starts over again.”
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