BREAKING: Top US health official says coronavirus vaccine not likely until mid-2021: 'That's just a fact'

With the U.S. hovering closer to 200,000 coronavirus fatalities, the pressure to develop an effective vaccine grows. But health officials continue to say a widespread vaccine will not be available until mid-2021.

Adm. Brett P. Giroir, the assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, confirmed that the U.S. is still a long way from a widely-available vaccine.

“A vaccine that would be widely available in hundreds and millions of doses would not likely happen until mid-2021. That is a fact,” he said.

The distribution of just a few million doses of the vaccine, however, could still lead to a marked improvement, Giroir noted.

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