Harvard Doctor Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine By Early 2021 | Hallie Jackson | MSNBC

Dr. Ashish tells NBC News that mostly everyone got an immune response from Oxford University's vaccine, but those hoping for a vaccine as early as this fall are being "unrealistic." He predicts the vaccine will be ready by early 2021. Aired on 07/20/2020.
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Harvard Doctor Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine By Early 2021 | Hallie Jackson | MSNBC

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  1. The sooner we can get a safe and reliable vaccine, the sooner our world can get back to some semblance of normal. 🙂

    1. @Mueller Time And does not work… Read the real science.
      The Russians really are Troll central today.

  2. It would appear that with all the different vaccines that are being worked on round the world late 2020, early 2021 does look likely! It would be great if this was ready on mass by next summer!

    1. It’s being made en mass already so that whichever one(s) work they can be rolled out straight away.

    1. *Obama changed the face of our economy for the worse*
      Oct 2016 https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/299881-obama-changed-the-face-of-our-economy-for-the-worse

      Question: What do Hong Kong, Singapore, Chile, Ireland and Estonia have in common?

      Answer: They all have more economic freedom than the United States.

      According to the 2016 edition of the Index of Economic Freedom — compiled annually by the Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation — America has matched its lowest global ranking ever at #11, its seventh decline in the past eight years. Measuring such factors as rule of law, regulatory efficiency, limited government, and open markets, they conclude, “The United States remains mired in the ranks of the ‘mostly free,’ the second-tier economic freedom status into which it dropped in 2010.”

      Many believe we’ve arrived at this state of affairs due to the nature America’s mixed economy—capitalism coupled with government controls—and its nexus with President Barack Obama’s eight years of collectivist ideas and policies into American life and the economy. The result: Obama and his administration have upset, perhaps in some respects irrevocably, the tenuous balance between private enterprise (free markets, productivity, entrepreneurial growth, etc.) and the countervailing winds of government coercion and intervention.

      Certainly one of the primary culprits in this dynamic is the blizzard of regulations imposed under Obama. As reported by Sam Batkins of the American Action Forum (AAF), the Obama presidency has implemented 600 major regulations—defined as regulations that have “an economic impact of $100 million or more”—and is on track to enact 641 major regulations before he leaves office. This figure shatters the 426 regulations under President George Bush and represents a new major regulation every three days—according to Batkins costing, “on average, $1.4 billion . . . With the possibility of 50 more rules, the lame duck tally could push this regulatory cost figure to $813 billion . . . more than the GDP of the Philippines.”

      Faced with these and other findings, Obama remains obdurate and combative—offering kingly declarations in response: “By almost every measure, we are better off than when I took office” and “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” These assertions fly in the face of the numerous non-fictions he simply refuses to acknowledge: a labor participation rate near a 40-year low (including a record number of women); his single-handed accumulation of more debt (at $19.5 trillion and counting) than every other president before him combined;46 million Americans living in poverty and nearly 50 million on food stamps; his presidency overseeing a record number of home foreclosures; as well as America’s credit rating downgraded for the first time ever . . . the litany goes on. Is it any wonder that trust in Obama’s leadership and his administration remains at historically low levels? After almost eight years of government corruption, ever-expanding spending and taxation, bloating of the administrative state, and governance repeatedly highlighting racial, social and religious divisions, the once unassailable belief in America as the freest, strongest, noblest, most prosperous nation in history has been supplanted by a vision of ourselves that we do not recognize and from which we may never recover.

      Obama’s insistence on government being increasingly involved in the country’s private sector’s economic decision-making has inevitably given rise to more and more lobbyists, more special interest groups, more political influence, and more crony capitalism—which makes a mockery of his pledge to create an “unprecedented level of openness” and his claim that his administration has been “the most transparent administration in history.” His proof? Every visitor who comes to the White House is now a part of the public record.

      Given Obama’s lineage, his mentors and political influences, his controversial friends and associations, his background as a community organizer and neighborhood economic developer, should we be surprised that he is a man who knows only how to slice up the pie, rather than grow the pie? It is who he is. It’s in his DNA. He can’t help himself.

      Is it only a matter of time before America slides down to the next lower level of the economic freedom index and joins the ranks with Poland, Barbados, Albania, Rwanda, Namibia, Guatemala, Italy, Slovenia, and others—as “moderately free”?

  3. Harvard is no longer a credible degree…..BUT A TRUMP U degree can get you a HIGH position in the WH

    1. @Mueller Time – I did. It said the claim was false. A Harvard professor was arrested but it had nothing to do with giving viral infectious diseases to China.

    2. @Devinn Bruce so why incur the additional costs of moving on campus or if out of state,moving to accommodations off campus to attend.this has a negative effect on the local economy in which the university campus is on.you have businesses that are impacted by the amount of people who travel through the area.

    3. @Jeweled Bird and capone only cheated on his taxes right? Wake up to the truth. You know it. Your soul knows it. Accept it. Im sorry it is on the dem side. If you would have stood up in 2016 when the dnc cheeted us maybe things would be different.

  4. The only way this virus will be controlled is when the non mask wearing, no social distancing people get on board and start doing what’s best for everyone. There’s no room for whiny me me me in this.

    1. @Mueller Time It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt. Grow up, simpleton.

    2. @Mueller Time To all the mass murderers who feel put upon by limiting their ability to spread disease, I hereby suspend all requirement to wear cloth coverings below the neck just as long as they wear a mask. If you cover your nose and mouth, you can go stark naked below the neck. Deal?

    3. @G G maybe yes or maybe no. Sars and Mers are also coronaviruses and there is no other strain that has appeared in either virus. So if this virus reacts like those 2 in that way, once this is controlled, it will not comeback.

    1. @faye mahed it’s too bad you don’t know what you’re talkin about but what else would I expect from you

    2. @Mueller Time People died like flies , that’s why they stopped with it just like injecting disinfectants .

    1. *Obama changed the face of our economy for the worse*
      Oct 2016 https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/299881-obama-changed-the-face-of-our-economy-for-the-worse

      Question: What do Hong Kong, Singapore, Chile, Ireland and Estonia have in common?

      Answer: They all have more economic freedom than the United States.

      According to the 2016 edition of the Index of Economic Freedom — compiled annually by the Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation — America has matched its lowest global ranking ever at #11, its seventh decline in the past eight years. Measuring such factors as rule of law, regulatory efficiency, limited government, and open markets, they conclude, “The United States remains mired in the ranks of the ‘mostly free,’ the second-tier economic freedom status into which it dropped in 2010.”

      Many believe we’ve arrived at this state of affairs due to the nature America’s mixed economy—capitalism coupled with government controls—and its nexus with President Barack Obama’s eight years of collectivist ideas and policies into American life and the economy. The result: Obama and his administration have upset, perhaps in some respects irrevocably, the tenuous balance between private enterprise (free markets, productivity, entrepreneurial growth, etc.) and the countervailing winds of government coercion and intervention.

      Certainly one of the primary culprits in this dynamic is the blizzard of regulations imposed under Obama. As reported by Sam Batkins of the American Action Forum (AAF), the Obama presidency has implemented 600 major regulations—defined as regulations that have “an economic impact of $100 million or more”—and is on track to enact 641 major regulations before he leaves office. This figure shatters the 426 regulations under President George Bush and represents a new major regulation every three days—according to Batkins costing, “on average, $1.4 billion . . . With the possibility of 50 more rules, the lame duck tally could push this regulatory cost figure to $813 billion . . . more than the GDP of the Philippines.”

      Faced with these and other findings, Obama remains obdurate and combative—offering kingly declarations in response: “By almost every measure, we are better off than when I took office” and “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” These assertions fly in the face of the numerous non-fictions he simply refuses to acknowledge: a labor participation rate near a 40-year low (including a record number of women); his single-handed accumulation of more debt (at $19.5 trillion and counting) than every other president before him combined;46 million Americans living in poverty and nearly 50 million on food stamps; his presidency overseeing a record number of home foreclosures; as well as America’s credit rating downgraded for the first time ever . . . the litany goes on. Is it any wonder that trust in Obama’s leadership and his administration remains at historically low levels? After almost eight years of government corruption, ever-expanding spending and taxation, bloating of the administrative state, and governance repeatedly highlighting racial, social and religious divisions, the once unassailable belief in America as the freest, strongest, noblest, most prosperous nation in history has been supplanted by a vision of ourselves that we do not recognize and from which we may never recover.

      Obama’s insistence on government being increasingly involved in the country’s private sector’s economic decision-making has inevitably given rise to more and more lobbyists, more special interest groups, more political influence, and more crony capitalism—which makes a mockery of his pledge to create an “unprecedented level of openness” and his claim that his administration has been “the most transparent administration in history.” His proof? Every visitor who comes to the White House is now a part of the public record.

      Given Obama’s lineage, his mentors and political influences, his controversial friends and associations, his background as a community organizer and neighborhood economic developer, should we be surprised that he is a man who knows only how to slice up the pie, rather than grow the pie? It is who he is. It’s in his DNA. He can’t help himself.

      Is it only a matter of time before America slides down to the next lower level of the economic freedom index and joins the ranks with Poland, Barbados, Albania, Rwanda, Namibia, Guatemala, Italy, Slovenia, and others—as “moderately free”?

    1. @Blue Toile They are the biggest country in Europe excluding Russia, and they only took over parts of Europe and a bit of North Africa.

  5. It take years for a vaccine, trials and study takes time. I wouldn’t dare trust anything coming out this fall. That is just unrealistic. I’ll continue to wear my mask thank you.

    1. @Dan Sanger – I’m with you. We’ll let the idiots call us sheep right up to their last breath. They probably still think vaccines cause autism.

    2. @ulfpe it’s not just about N95, if both people are wearing basic masks, odds of getting infected are very low. If your in a store and someone isn’t wearing a mask then I’d keep distance. I have personally taken care of people with covid and some of the time I used a basic(surgical mask) but they had a mask on so I’ve been good so far but yea N95 is def the safest way to go.

    3. This is 2020 and the entire planet search for the vaccine. Old scientists who believe it takes years are still living in the 80s. I m sure the vaccine will be safe. If tested on 30 000 people at least I feel safe and relaxed.

  6. There are 7 different forms of Corona virus (the common cold is one of them) that infect people and after decades of trying, nobody has been able to produce an effective vaccine for any Corona virus and now there are some claiming they can produce an effective vaccine for a novel Corona virus in less than a year?

    1. Who’s cured the common cold..corona is a strain of this never a cure…be careful with what we’re told as truth….please be safe and watch listen and inform yourself…be safe..

    2. @koala koalason Get your information from varying and trusted sources (not social media or opinion sources) and that’s ok.

  7. “It’ll magically go away” means that hopefully Britain’s scientists will have success in their trials as Trump fails!

    1. Don’t ask me how but this is another Trump lie. I truly hope I am mistaken but that’s how he operates.

  8. That’s not soon enough to save America! Action needs to be taken to slow down this virus.

    It is controllable! Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea have proven that

    1. It’s only controllable in countries where the large majority of the population are prepared to follow instructions unfortunately.

  9. There are already signs up next to the anti-maskers saying they will not be vaccinated and accusing Gates of some corruption – The conspiracy theories are ahead of the news.

    1. Masquerading as a “Foundation”, whether Gates, Clinton or Soros, while manipulating markets by “donating” millions to each others “foundations” and proxies that they invest heavily in. This is a (hardly) perfected, but preconceived strategy of the filthy rich and power hungry maniacs who thought they wouldn’t be exposed.

      MSM never talks about those issues or even those very relationships…and we know why.

    2. @John nie You mean like the now illegal activities of the DJT Foundation and now banned controllers – the Trump Family

  10. The British are working on it and when they get it the whole world will get it, possibly not America because they will be selling it not giving it away. When it does arrive you watch American con men jump on board to sell fake vaccines to unsuspecting Americans.

  11. Soooooooo excited for this vaccine!!! Thank you to all of the scientists who are working so hard to make this happen.

    1. imagine where America would be if back in early March, Trump said for everyone to wear masks and to social distance, instead of touting for weeks that the virus was a ‘democratic hoax’ and will ‘go away’…

  12. If you’re going to shut down bars you need to shut down the other thing that is equally dangerous: Indoor church services with full congregations singing robustly.

  13. So naive! Rest assure Biff will have a vaccine by the end of October at latest! Well, not a real working available vaccine, but the illusion of it just in time for the presidential election.

  14. The Donald
    Q
    The tournament has many games.
    Play to win in such a way as to be invited back, to play more games.
    Q

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