L-R: CDC director Robert Redfield, NIAID director Anthony Fauci, HHS assistant secretary for health Brett Giroir and FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn testify before Congress, June 23, 2020 (Kevin Dietsch, Pool via AP Images)

Covid-19 roundup: An­tho­ny Fau­ci, Stephen Hahn tes­ti­fy in Con­gress; Chi­na's Sinopharm speeds in­to PhI­II vac­cine tri­al

In the ear­ly days of the out­break, NI­AID-chief-turned-Amer­i­ca’s-Doc­tor An­tho­ny Fau­ci cau­tioned Amer­i­cans that a vac­cine could come in 12-18 months. Af­ter sev­er­al months of re­search and de­vel­op­ment and hun­dreds of vac­cine projects around the globe, he’s stick­ing with the most op­ti­mistic end of that as­s­es­ment.

Ap­pear­ing in a black cloth mask be­fore the House En­er­gy and Com­merce Com­mit­tee, Fau­ci ex­pressed con­fi­dence about the ar­rival of a vac­cine even as he of­fered a sober as­sess­ment of the “dis­turb­ing surge” of in­fec­tions now tak­ing off in some parts of the coun­try.

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