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Dr. Birx: Michigan protests 'devastatingly worrisome'; vaccine 'possible' by January
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dr-birx-michigan-protests-devastatingly-worrisome-vaccine-possible-by-january
Providing some good news, Birx addressed President Trump's Operation Warp Speed, a plan to have a COVID-19 vaccine ready as early as January 2021, well ahead of the 12- to 18-month projection initially put foward. Birx explained that while a lot needs to be done between now and then, it remains in the realm of possibility.
"The way that it's possible is if you bring forward five or six different classes of candidates, which the Operation Warp Speed has done. And so it's not relying on a single vaccine platform, it's relying on several different candidates that are made differently and act differently," Birx explained. She said a series of "compressed" trials would then be done "in an overlapping way," progressing when there is positive data but without pauses that are typically part of the process.
"And so on paper it's possible," Birx said. "It's whether we can execute and execute around the globe, because you also for Phase Three have to have active viral transmission in a community in order to study its efficacy."
Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of President Trump's coronavirus task force, warned that some activities that Americans are engaging in across the country are potentially putting lives in danger as the coronavirus pandemic continues to plague the nation.
In a "Fox News Sunday" interview, Birx weighed in on recent incidents ranging from crowds flocking to Califonia beaches to the reopening of salons and spas, but came down particularly hard on Michigan protesters who stormed the state capitol in large numbers without wearing masks.
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