Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci Two U.S. cross-lines that require COVID-19 vaccinations before they take off on Sunday show preview: Budget resolution clears the way for 9 billion stimulus; Senate prepares for indictment Maine governor warns against Super Bowl parties MORE, the country’s leading expert in infectious diseases, said on Sunday that he disagreed with experts who suggested that the second dose of coronavirus vaccine could be delayed to prioritize more first doses.
‘One of the problems is that if you really want to study it to see it, the amount of time it will take, the amount of people you will have to spend on the study – by that time we will already be in the arena to have enough “to have enough vaccines to go around anyway,” Fauci said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Fauci said that “from a theoretical point of view” information on the durability of a single dose would be useful. “But what we have now, and what we have to go with, is the scientific data we have collected, and that is very good,” he added. ‘We know it’s 21 days or 28 days. You can do both. You can get as many people in their first dose at the same time as following the schedule for the second dose within reason. “
Under current circumstances, Fauci added, “demand is clearly greater than supply.”
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Fauci: “I could certainly, a little more aggressively, have contracted with the companies to get more doses, but that’s what we have now.” pic.twitter.com/bmRiWAOm9y
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“If you look at the increase in the availability of doses, simply on the ability and the ability to manufacture it, it will increase and will increase as we go from February to March to April and beyond,” he added. “While there is a clear, distinct contradiction between this, the demand and the supply, it will get better as we get through February and into March.”