Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciTwo U.S. cruise lines that need vaccines against COVID-19 before boarding on Sunday show a preview: the budget resolution paves the way for the .9 trillion stimulus; Senate prepares for dismissal trial Maine governor warns against Super Bowl matches MORE, the country’s leading infectious disease expert, said Sunday it disagreed with experts who have suggested the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine could be delayed to prioritize more first doses.
“One of the problems that if you really want to study it to see it, the amount of time it will take, the amount of people that you would have to devote to the study; at this point, we will already be in the field of having enough – of have enough vaccines to do it anyway, “Fauci told NBC’s” Meet the Press “
Fauci said the information “from a theoretical point of view” about the durability of a single dose would be useful. “But what we have right now and what we need to accompany is the scientific data that we have accumulated and it is really very solid,” he added. “We know that with each of these it’s 21 days or 28 days. You can do both. You can get so many people in their first dose at the same time that they reasonably adhere to the second dose schedule.”
In the current circumstances, Fauci added, “demand clearly exceeds supply.”
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Fauci: “No doubt, I guess, we could have contracted, a little more aggressively, with companies to get more doses, but right now that’s what we have.” pic.twitter.com/bmRiWAOm9y
– Meet the press (@MeetThePress) February 7, 2021
“If we look at the escalation of dose availability exclusively on the capacity and capacity to manufacture them, it will increase and continue to increase as we go from February to March to April and beyond,” he added. “So while there is a clear and distinct discrepancy between that, demand and supply, that will improve as we get to February and March.”