Dr. Fauci said in an announcement that healthy Americans should not expect to take the vaccines until April as the elderly and other vulnerable populations will be the main priority.
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Fauci said during a town hall meeting with CNN that the vaccine will be administered to individuals that are at high risk to quickly curb the spread of the virus. Additionally, he hopes by the end of March, early April so herd immunity can bring down the virus after the elderly and health care workers are given the vaccine.
“What we would really like to see is once you get into open season in the sense of anybody can get it that we really have a full-court press on getting people vaccinated. The quicker you get the overwhelming majority of the country vaccinated the quicker you’re going to have that umbrella of herd immunity that will be so so important to bringing the level of the virus way, way down.”
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As reported by the New York Post, Fauci predicts that health care workers would be among the first to be given the vaccine this month after the Food and Drug Administration authorizes an emergency use order.