Fauci warns against rushed approval of COVID-19 vaccine following report that Trump administration wants to do just that

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• Dr. Anthony Fauci, in an interview with Reuters, warned against fast-tracking the approval of any COVID-19 vaccine that has not undergone clinical trials.
• "The one thing you would not want to see with a vaccine is getting an EUA [emergency use authorization] before you have a signal of efficacy," Fauci said.
• The comment comes a day after the US Food & Drug Administration issued an EUA for plasma therapy, following pressure from the White House.
• "One of the potential dangers if you prematurely let a vaccine out is that it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the other vaccines to enroll people in their [clinical] trial," Fauci said.
• "To me, it's absolutely paramount that you definitively show that a vaccine is safe and effective, both," Fauci continued. "We would hope that nothing interferes with the full demonstration that a vaccine is safe and effective."
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The US government's top infectious disease expert is warning against the fast-tracked approval of a COVID-19 vaccine, saying that doing so "prematurely" could actually set back efforts to immunize the population against the novel coronavirus.

In an interview with Reuters, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the "one thing you would not want to see with a vaccine is getting an EUA [emergency use authorization] before you have a signal of efficacy."

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