NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser for the coronavirus vaccine development program, Operation Warp Speed, about the status of vaccines in the U.S.
Back in the spring, the Trump administration bet big on a plan to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine.
SLAOUI: Well, it's a matter of planning, and the operation has been performing, I have to say, very, very well up to now, even better than I was hoping. There is a very, very low chance that the trials that are running as we speak could read before the end of October, and therefore there could be - if all other conditions required for an emergency use authorization are met and approved.
KELLY: Before you know that it works and it is safe. I mean, you understand why there are all these questions about the timing...KELLY: ...And that this beginning of November or late October date being floated at all - many people will ask, is this politics? Is this a calculated push to try to rush some good news - a vaccine, hallelujah, we're saved - to get that out there right before the election? Let me let you just take that on directly.
SLAOUI: But I think - frankly, I think - I get the point. You're right. And my reading of that letter, which I - like you - discovered on the news, is one that says we need to be prepared is off. And I do think there is a possibility that the clinical trials - albeit very low, as I said before, extremely low - but there is a possibility that the trials read out before the end of October. It would be irresponsible not to be ready if that was the case.
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