(Bloomberg) -- Every American should be able to obtain a coronavirus vaccine by April, a senior Trump administration official said in an interview.
The U.S. is likely to approve one or more vaccines in November or December, though October is possible, Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy at the department of Health and Human Services, said Wednesday.
“We are under contract to get enough doses, and we have line of sight right now into the clinical trials such that we believe” the FDA will approve shots before the end of the year, he said. “The combination of those two will permit us to vaccinate every American before the end of first quarter 2021.”
That timetable is more aggressive than those of drug company executives and other U.S. health officials. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said Americans shouldn’t expect a vaccine to be widely available before mid-2021.
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