A transcript of the interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. A lot of states are moving to open up really quickly, trying to get their economies back in gear.
We've seeing pictures of crowds on beaches and in other settings; many people aren't wearing masks. Are you worried that we're setting ourselves up for a boomerang effect in the next few weeks?
What it means is that at the same time you're finishing your Phase 1 trial, you're preparing your Phase 3 trial sites, which is very expensive, and then you're starting to manufacture the vaccine even before you know it works. All of that cuts months off. The only thing that's the big unknown to me is that, is it going to be effective? I think we could do it within the time frame that I've outlined. But there's no guarantee that it's going to be effective.
Have you been at all concerned about adverse events? They had some Grade 3s. [Grade 3 adverse events are serious, but not considered life-threatening.] You're asking me an opinion of things, but there's still little data. The Pfizer one is very similar to Moderna's. It's an mRNA vaccine. I'm sure that Pfizer is going to get results that are as good as the Moderna vaccine. There's no reason to believe one is going to be any different than the other.
I think that the president and the administration would be really very happy if we had a vaccine that we could deploy by the end of this year.We used to have task force meetings every single day, including Saturday and Sunday, and about 75% of the time after the task force meeting we'd meet with the president. So I was meeting with him four times a week back, a month or so ago.
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