Fauci: Drugmakers will have 1 billion COVID-19 vaccines by end of 2021 – Business Insider – Business Insider

Drugmakers will likely have produced a billion doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of next year, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States' top infectious disease official, said Wednesday.

"We are likely going to have maybe tens of million of doses in the early part of [next] year. But as we get into 2021, the manufacturers tell us that they will have hundreds of millions and likely a billion doses by the end of 2021," Fauci said in an interview with Reuters.

That, of course, depends on an effective vaccine actually being developed and approved. "I'm cautiously optimistic, though you can never guarantee things with a vaccine," Fauci commented.

Before then, however, there will be another cycle of infection.

"I hope and feel it's possible that by the time we get through 2021 and go around for another cycle, that we'll have this under control," Fauci said. "Do I think we're going to have a much, much better control one full year from this winter? I think so."

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