Azar Lays Out Timeline For COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution For Healthy Adults

Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar speaks after a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the HHS on June 26, 2020. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday that the general adult population in the U.S. will have access to the COVID-19 vaccine by mid-2021.

“Yes, by the second quarter of next year,” Azar replied when Axios reporter Mike Allen asked if the vaccine will be “widely available” to “any adult” in the country by spring.

“My expectation is that next year we return to normalcy in our lives thanks to the incredible work of Operation Warp Speed and these vaccines,” the Trump official added.

Watch Azar below:

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  1. OK, Azar says that vaccine will be widely available mid-2021 so there is no way in hell that is going to happen.

  2. Right, and as soon as we all get the vaccine all will return to being normal. Notice the timeline for people to receive the vaccine keeps being pushed back. We’ll wait, it’s not going to be normal by mid-2021 warp speed or not.

  3. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday that the general adult population in the U.S. that is still alive will have access to the COVID-19 vaccine by mid-2021.

    Fixed.

  4. It’s too bad that the Trump administration has done such a horrible job that we can’t trust what they are saying.

    With that said, the predictions on vaccine production fit with most people having access by summer, though there are a lot of steps in the process still to work out completely. It’s not clear how much work is left to do to make this happen…it is being worked on but we’re not hearing a lot. We can hope that the professionals are doing their jobs and pushing things along, and that the politicians in the administration are staying out of the way.

    When the Biden administration takes over, we’ll be able to trust what is said again, and we’ll find out if the Trump administration left any landmines that hamper the vaccine distribution next year. Let’s hope they don’t mess with that at least, they are screwing with everything else in the transition to make Biden’s start as rough as possible.

  5. Azar is known for his word.

    I won’t be making any plans.

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