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Slaoui confident ‘few hundred million’ COVID-19 vaccine doses will be available by year-end
May 16, 2020 1:59 AM UTC
Moncef Slaoui, the former GSK executive named chief scientist of the COVID-19 vaccine acceleration program, said he has “seen early data from a clinical trial” that gave him confidence “that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses” of an undisclosed COVID-19 vaccine by year-end.
Friday’s Rose Garden briefing unveiled Operation Warp Speed to bring together experts from NIH, CDC and FDA to combat the pandemic. “That means big and it means fast,” Trump said, before comparing it to the Manhattan Project. ...