During an on-air appearance on NPR’s Morning Edition, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director described to host Rachel Martin how—and how quickly—the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will play out. Read on to see what the nation’s top infectious disease doc had to say, and for more on the vaccine, check out You Need to Quit This Bad Habit Before Getting a COVID Vaccine, Study Says.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Read the original article on Best Life. When asked where Fauci believed the vaccine rollout process currently stood, he explained that things were well in motion as both companies await government approval. “The timeline of getting the doses into the vials and available for vaccination are going to be a graded process. It’s not going to happen all at once,” he explained. “At best, what we will see is that some people—generally the highest priority that’s determined by an advisory committee and ultimately the CDC—will likely be some getting vaccinated towards the end of December.” After Martin asked whether he meant weeks from now, Fauci clarified: “This December—literally, next month, we hope that we’ll be getting vaccine into people.” And for more on Fauci’s vaccination projections, check out Dr. Fauci Says This Many People Need to Get Vaccinated to Stop COVID. Many have wondered who will get priority on vaccinations, and Fauci explained that health care workers, childcare givers, and teachers would likely be granted first access, as well as a few other key demographics to consider amid a pandemic. “The recommendation of who that will be will be finalized by the CDC. Likely, [it] will be health care workers, as well as people who are at high risk for serious disease,” he said. “It will be a graded list. It will be a list in which you go from people who are either at the highest risk or are important to society,” he explained. “And then as you go down the list, it gets to people who are less at risk for serious disease.” And for more up-to-date COVID news, sign up for our daily newsletter. If you’re only at the quarter-life mark and don’t have any comorbidities, your vaccination will have to wait, Fauci says. “The 25- [or] 30-year-old person with no underlying conditions who’s otherwise healthy—that likely will be the person towards the end,” he noted. And for more on how officials are adapting to the pandemic, check out The CDC Just Quietly Removed Its Most Controversial Guidelines. After the most vulnerable and exposed in the population are covered, getting the vast majority of healthy people inoculated won’t be as long a process as one might expect, Fauci said. “So what the projection is going to be—and remember, these are not guaranteed, but it looks pretty good for this—that the first several months of 2021 will be going through the priority group,” he explained. “By the time you get to, let’s say, the end of April, the beginning of May, June, July, [and] as we get into the second quarter, it’d be much more likely that you’ll have ’the general population’… Not on the priority list, able to get vaccinated.” And for subtle signs you could be sick, check out These 4 Easy-To-Miss Symptoms Could Mean You Have COVID, Experts Say.
