A COVID-19 vaccine will be available in the US by the end of 2020, going into 2021.
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“We feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021.”
- Said on
- 31 July 2020 · Testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis
- Source
- Fauci tells Congress he's 'cautiously optimistic' about vaccine this year · PBS NewsHour
- Should come true
- 2020
- How sure they sounded
- cautiously optimistic
- Categories
- Health
- Importance
- 4 of 5 · Vaccine timing was central to the global pandemic response.
Outcome
Accurate Happened 11 December 2020.
The FDA granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on December 11, 2020 (and Moderna's a week later), before the end of 2020. "Cautiously optimistic" is read as an expectation, not a mere possibility.
- https://ascopost.com/issues/december-25-2020/fda-issues-emergency-use-authorization-for-first-covid-19-vaccine/
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/11/nation/fda-authorizes-emergency-use-first-us-vaccine-covid-19
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