Dr. Fauci just made it easy to understand why coronavirus vaccines are so promising

• Dr. Anthony Fauci gave a new update on coronavirus vaccine research and trials, explaining why he remains cautiously optimistic about COVID-19 vaccine research.
• The health expert compared COVID-19 and AIDS vaccine research, and explained why a coronavirus vaccine can be done in a year while HIV vaccines have failed for nearly 40 years.
• Fauci said that the immune system can't put up a fight against HIV, but it can eliminate the novel coronavirus. That process is critical for understanding what researchers aim for when developing vaccine candidates and why COVID-19 vaccine research is so promising.

The scientific community's mobilization during the novel coronavirus pandemic is one of the often-overlooked feats amid this health crisis. Scientists learned everything they could about the virus early on in the pandemic, sequencing the new virus' DNA and proving the pathogen evolved naturally in animals before finding its first human host. Based on that information, they were able to come up with more than 150 vaccine ideas, many of which are in advanced clinical trials. Others crafted therapies to prevent COVID-19 complications and deaths, while even more researchers studied all the ways the virus behaves, proving that face masks work and that the virus can linger in the air for extended periods. Thanks to all that speed, we'll almost certainly have our first COVID-19 vaccines this fall. We'll know whether the vaccines that reached Phase 3 of testing are effective and safe, and we'll know when and how immunization campaigns will be structured.

Leading the vaccine effort from his position as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is Dr. Anthony Fauci. The health expert keeps saying that he's cautiously optimistic about the global vaccine efforts. The US government is funding several vaccine candidates via its Operation Wars Speed program and has already committed to purchasing hundreds of millions of doses once they receive regulatory approval. Fauci has now appeared in another interview about the pandemic and he explained precisely why he thinks the world has a good chance of developing a very effective COVID-19 vaccine.

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