It's not going to be turning a switch off and turning the switch on, it's going to be gradual and I think it's going to take several months before we get to the point where we can really feel something that approximates how it was normally before Covid-19.

Anthony Fauci

It may be completely different with this coronavirus, with SARS-CoV-2, it may be that they induce a response thats quite durable.

The real business end of this all will be the Phase 3 that starts in the first week of July, hopefully, we want to get as many datapoints as we can.

Which tells us, that if the body is capable of making an immune response to clear the virus of natural infection, that's a pretty good proof of concept, having said that, there is never a guarantee.

Then, by the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple hundred million doses.

I'm cautiously optimistic that with the multiple candidates we have with different platforms, that we are going to have a vaccine that will make it deployable.

I hesitate to make any broad statements about whether it is or is not quote' safe' for kids to come back to school, when you talk about children going back to school and their safety, it really depends on the level of viral activity, and the particular area that you're talking about. What happens all too often, understandably, but sometimes misleadingly, is that we talk about the country as a whole in a unidimensional way.

Children can get infected, so, yes, so you've got to be careful, you got to be careful for them and you got to be careful that they may not spread it. Now, to make an extrapolation that you shouldn't open schools, I think is a bit of a reach.

We don't know that for absolutely certain right now.

There are no well-documented cases of transmission of HIV by exchange of saliva, it is extraordinarily unlikely that a healthy person can be infected by HIV through French kissing.

I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that's the kind of thing you should be doing.

Those are the things that everybody should seriously consider doing.

If all the cards fall into the right place and all the stars are aligned, you definitely could get a vaccine by December or January.

I think you're going to probably be seeing a little bit more of me and my colleagues, we've been talking with the communications people, and they realize we need to get some of this information out, particularly some of the scientific issues for which I'm predominantly responsible for, so hopefully we'll be seeing more of us, will get the opportunity to talk to you.

There's no way I'm going to get a haircut.

Right now, if you take southern Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, parts of Asia, South America and even parts of the Caribbean as areas that don't have the healthcare system to be able to respond the way one can respond in New York or L.A. or New Orleans or Chicago, we have really a moral responsibility for people throughout the world.

The idea of having treatments available or a vaccine to facilitate the re-entry of students into the fall term would be something that would be a bridge too far, even at the top speed we're going, we don't see a vaccine playing in the ability of individuals to get to school this term.

There's no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective.

What I've expressed, then and again, just my concern that if some areas, cities, states or what have you, jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently - my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks.

I think you are correct that the number is likely higher, i don't know exactly where it sits higher, but almost certainly is higher.

There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control and, in fact, paradoxically, will set you back, not only leading to some suffering and death that could be avoided, but could even set you back on the road to try to get economic recovery.