Fauci ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ Covid-19 Vaccine Will Happen

The NIH’s Anthony S. Fauci is “cautiously optimistic” scientists will develop a Covid-19 vaccine that can protect against future outbreaks of a virus he said is unlikely to disappear.

“The very fact that people can mount a natural immune response that gets rid of the virus in them makes me cautiously optimistic that we can develop a vaccine that can mimic natural infection enough to induce that same sort of response that would ultimately protect people,” Fauci said Tuesday at a virtual event hosted by the Economic Club. “There’s never a guarantee of success, but the fact that the body ...