When Trump tells you there will be a vaccine by Election Day and that there will enough vaccine for all Americans by April (it was October and then it was the end of 2020), it's a lie. Trump has no idea of the status of any vaccine trials and he probably has even less information or understanding of the logistics of vaccine production and distribution. Part of the reason is his ignorance, but the other part is that virtually no one knows the status of the ongoing vaccine trials. Dr. Fauci explains why.
In fact, no one in the administration has seen it. In an interview with The Daily Beast Monday evening, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said there is only one individual who has access to the data that would show whether a vaccine is viable.
“These are blind placebo-controlled trials. The only ones who see the data intermittently is the safety data monitoring board…. a single unblinded statistician,” Fauci said. “Those data are not public data, no one can know what those data show. That person looks at the data and says, ‘OK, let's keep the trial going, we don't have enough data to make a decision.’ Or that person can look at the data and say, ‘You know, there really is a very strong signal of efficacy, let's make it known.’ We bring in the company, we tell the company, then the company can make up their mind, whether they want to use that data to go to the [Federal Drug Administration for approval].”
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