Coronavirus: US vaccine tsar expresses optimism for ‘a few hundred million doses’ by end of the year

The former pharmaceutical executive chosen this week by US President Donald Trump to speed up the development of a coronavirus vaccine said on Friday that he expected to accomplish the goal by the end of this year.“I have very recently seen early data from a clinical trial with a coronavirus vaccine, and these data made me feel even more confident that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020,” Moncef Slaoui, who is leading the US development…

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