As the long year is nearing its end, everyone is itching for life to go back to the way it was before the coronavirus pandemic—especially now that a vaccine seems to be just around the corner. Fortunately, experts are already predicting when normalcy will return, and it might be sooner than you expect. According to a top White House official, your life may actually go "back to normal" by April or May. Read on for why this could be the end of the COVID pandemic, and for more on the ongoing fight against the virus, Almost All COVID Transmission Is Happening in These 5 Places, Doctor Says.
The United States is just a moment away from a coronavirus vaccine, as two possible candidates—Moderna and Pfizer—are currently being reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Moncef Slaoui, the White House's chief adviser for Operation Warp Speed, told CBS that he expects the vaccine distribution process to start this month, which will result in a "light at the end of the tunnel" by April or May.
"I think we may start to see some impact on the most susceptible people probably in the months of January and February," Slaoui said during a Dec. 6 Face the Nation interview. "But on a population basis, for our lives to start getting back to normal, we're talking about April or May. Therefore, it's absolutely vital that everybody take comfort in the fact that we have light at the end of the tunnel, and find the energy in that to continue to wear our masks, distance, wash our hands, pay attention to what we're doing to make sure we're there by the spring to benefit from the vaccine."
Both Moderna and Pfizer are expected to provide around 40 million vaccine doses by the end of 2020, which will provide 20 million Americans with the two doses that are required. However, as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee recommended on Dec. 1, this first batch will most likely be given to health care personnel and those in long-term care facilities.
"The first vaccine shipment will happen on the day after the vaccine is approved," Slaoui noted. "That's how we planned it. If the vaccine is approved on the 10th or the 11th, the minute it's approved, the shipments will start."
And while some health professionals are less optimistic about this speedy timeline, there are other notable experts who have offered similar predictions to Slaoui's. On Nov. 30, Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the general public should be able to get the vaccine by April, which means normality could fall within Slaoui's timeline. And John Bell, an Oxford University medicine professor, told the BBC on Nov. 9 that he has "some confidence" that life will return back to normal by spring.
While a vaccine rollout plan has yet to be finalized, many experts have broken down how they expect the distribution to occur before April, when it's expected to be given to the general public. Keep reading for that timeline, and for more on staying healthy in the meantime, Here's How Likely You Are to Catch COVID in the Next Month, Expert Says.
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