Coronavirus
Dr. Fauci Shifts the Timeline on When the General Public Will Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine
(CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci said vaccines won’t be available to the “general public” before mid-to-late May or early June, he told CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Tuesday.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged that previous estimates had placed vaccine available for the general public — or nonessential workers under 65 with no health conditions — closer to the end of April.
“If you start talking about when the vaccine would be more widely available to the general population, I was hoping that that would be by the end of April, namely, have gone through all the priorities and now say, OK anyone can get it,” Fauci said. “That was predicated on J&J, the Johnson product, having considerably more doses than now we know they’re going to have.”
Johnson & Johnson will have fewer than 10 million vaccine doses available if the US Food and Drug Administration authorizes it for emergency use in the coming weeks, a federal health official told CNN earlier this month.
