“We’ll have the vaccine soon, maybe before a special date,” the president said on Monday. “There’s absolutely a desperate need for this vaccine,” said Dr. Judith Feinberg, the vice chairwoman for research in medicine at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Pfizer has said repeatedly over the past week that it could apply to the F.D.A. Moderna and AstraZeneca have been less specific, saying only they hope to have a vaccine by the end of the year. Last week, Moderna’s chief executive said the company was slightly slowing its enrollment in order to include more people from groups that had been most affected by Covid-19.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2020 22:07 UTC