“More likely than not” a COVID-19 vaccine is possible, Fauci tells Senate

Enlarge / Dr. Anthony Fauci testifying from home to an extremely sparsely populated Senate chamber during a May 12 hearing on how safely to reopen US schools and businesses. (credit: Win McNamee | Getty Images)

Months after schools and businesses nationwide shut down to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and most of America started hunkering down at home, we're all left with one common question: now what? When can we send our kids to school again? Can those who have lost jobs start looking for new ones? How will we know when it's safe to do... well, anything?

We need to be careful and patient to avoid massive new outbreaks as states and cities begin to come back online, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's leading infectious disease expert and director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Congress. "My concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks," Fauci testified to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) in a hearing today.

Fauci was the star witness at the hearing, testifying alongside Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, and Adm. Brett Giroir, Assistant Secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services.

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