Dr. Fauci Says We Need at Least 75% of People to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine

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Those who want a COVID-19 vaccine will likely be able to get it by mid-2021, according to Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease. And Dr. Fauci stressed in a new interview that a majority of the population needs to get vaccinated for us all to get the most benefit.

There are now three coronavirus vaccines that look promising, according to early data released by the pharmaceutical companies. Both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines appear to be at least 90% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infections, while the AstraZeneca vaccine looks to be about 70% effective at this (although there have been some questions about the data and the true efficacy has yet to be determined). To be clear, we don't know yet if these COVID-19 vaccines will actually prevent infection and transmission, not just symptomatic cases of the illness. But at this point, we clearly need all the help we can get. Moderna and Pfizer have both already applied for authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their vaccines, meaning that the first doses could be available for the “high priorities” in December, Dr. Fauci told Bloomberg.

That will likely include health care providers, frontline medical workers, other types of essential workers, and those at a high risk for severe COVID-19 complications, such as those with certain underlying health conditions. This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is set to finalize the order in which those priority groups will receive the vaccine over the next few months while doses are still limited.

Then by the time we get to April, “they will have likely taken care of all the high priority [people]," Dr. Fauci explained. At that point, those in the general population—those who are generally young and have no underlying health conditions that put them at high risk—“can walk into a CVS or Walgreens and get vaccinated,” Dr. Fauci said. “I would think as we get through April and May, we likely would have [enough doses] for those who want to get vaccinated, the overwhelming majority of the people who want to get vaccinated.”

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1. My wife's dentist this AM said she will not take the vaccine

She said it hasn’t been tested enough, fair I guess, but also that it derived from fetuses. Which confuses the vaccines with a misunderstanding about Regeneron. Bye bye dentist, at least until we are vaccinated. I had hoped 60% vaccination along with 10% already infected would have been enough. His 75% figure was a punch in the stomach.

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2. So..is this about...

265 million people?