Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci Two American cruise lines that require COVID-19 vaccinations before boarding on Sunday present the preview: the budget resolution paves the way for the 9 trillion stimulus; Senate prepares for removal process Maine governor warns against Super Bowl parties MORE, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, said on Sunday it disagreed with experts who suggested the second dose of coronavirus vaccine could be delayed to prioritize more than one first dose.
“One of the problems that if you really want to study to see this, how long it will take, the amount of people you should put in the study – by then, we will already be in the arena of having enough – to have enough vaccines to circulate anyway “, said Fauci on the NBC show” Meet the Press “.
Fauci said information “theoretically” about the durability of a single dose would be helpful. “But what we have now and what we need to go with is the scientific data that we have accumulated and it is really very solid,” he added. “We know that for each of them there are 21 days or 28 days. You can do both. You can get as many people in their first dose at the same time as you reasonably adhere to the second dose schedule. ”
In the current circumstances, Fauci added, “demand clearly exceeds supply.”
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Fauci: “Certainly, I think, we could have contracted, a little more aggressively, with the 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 increasing the availability of doses only according to its capacity and production capacity, it will increase and continue to escalate as we go from February to March to April and beyond,” he added. “So, even if there is a clear, clear discrepancy between this, supply and demand, it will get better as we go through February and into March.”