Dr. Anthony Fauci said a COVID-19 vaccine could be available by the end of this year or the beginning of 2021. 'We feel cautiously optimistic,' he told lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. More:
The committee's Democrats pressed the health officials for details on why the federal response has not been more effective and whether Trump prevented health experts from taking action sooner.
"OK, we're going to play that game," Fauci said, sounding annoyed."I don't regret that, because let me explain to you what happened. At that time, there was a paucity of equipment that our health care providers needed, who put themselves daily in harm's way of taking care of people who are ill. We did not want to divert masks and PPE away from them, to be used by the people. Now that we have enough, we recommend. ...
The health officials were also asked to predict what might happen next in the battle against the virus. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., raised the issue of how the virus has disproportionately endangered African Americans and other minorities. He asked Fauci whether institutional racism could be considered a comorbidity for COVID-19.
Redfield said antibody testing is valuable to the CDC as a virus surveillance tool."It allows us to see what the full extent of the infection [is]," he said."Right now, the data at a national level suggests that for every documented infection that you have as a case report, there's actually about 10 other individuals that had been infected."
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