Large-scale deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines may start in April, EU head says
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The European Union may be in a position to start deliveries of a Covid-19 vaccine "in earnest" in April.
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According to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, "the big numbers are due to start in April".
Under a bast-case scenario, firms would be in a position
to deliver as many as 50m vaccines per month to the European Union.
Earlier, the US administration's top health official, Anthony Fauci, had said that a vaccine to help control the pandemic was unlikely to be available until January.
In an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association, Fauci said that the main stumbling block was that not enough of the volunteers enrolled in key clinical trials had yet fallen ill.
That made it impossible to draw conclusions on the vaccines' efficacy and to file for emergency use authorisation with the US Food and Drug Administration.
He also said that companies should start to have enough trial data in December and an EUA could arrive in January, or perhaps later, "we don't know".