Dr. Fauci predicts drugmakers will likely produce 1 billion COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2021

Al Drago/Pool via REUTERS

• Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview with Reuters that drugmakers will likely have "tens of million of doses" of a COVID-19 vaccine by early 2021.
• By the end of next year, he said there will be "hundreds of millions and likely a billion doses."
• Fauci, the top infectious disease official, warned that nothing is certain.
• "I'm cautiously optimistic, though you can never guarantee things with a vaccine," Fauci commented.
• Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

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.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

NOW WATCH: Inside London during COVID-19 lockdown

See Also:

• Survey suggests 2.5% of Italians have COVID-19 antibodies, which would be 6 times more than the official count of cases
• An impassioned obituary for a 79-year-old coronavirus victim blames Trump for his death, then calls out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and people who refused to wear masks
• The former head of the FDA warned that the Northeast will likely get hit with another wave of coronavirus cases, saying the virus continues to 'rotate through different parts of the country'

from Business Insider https://ift.tt/3gsfUiJ