If too few people get a COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, it won't help reduce the spread of the deadly virus, the U.S's top infectious disease official said.
"It's a combination ofand how many people use it," Fauci said. "If you have a vaccine that is highly effective and not enough people get vaccinated, you're not going to realize the full, important effect of having a vaccine."
Most, 76%, said they were concerned about the side effects and said that was the main reason they would "definitely or probably not" get a vaccine. Fauci said he still thinks it will be the final months of the year before a vaccine is proven to be safe and effective. ''I would still put my money on November/December," Fauci said during a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute panel on global pandemics.
The group used data collected by analytics firm Airfinity to analyze published deals between governments and vaccine makers. Oxfam calculated five organizations -- AstraZeneca, Russia's Gamaleya, Moderna, Pfizer and China's Sinovac -- have the combined production capacity to make 5.94 billion doses. That's enough to cover 2.97 billion people -- less than half the world's population, if everyone needs two doses, as seems likely.
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