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US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday that "I personally don't You can »give a timeline for when, for example, 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccines will have come out, as the FDA's responsibilities are on the regulatory side.
"However, we are working very hard to help manufacturers in the supply chain achieve the highest possible supply, and of course, evaluating the quality of manufacture," said Hahn.
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He also said that he had heard public reports from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that "the expectation is that in the coming months there will be enough vaccine supplies to vaccinate 100 million Americans."
Asked by Tapper about HHS Secretary Alex Azar's opinion that the United States was, in his opinion, on track to have doses ready for 20 million Americans by the end of the year, Hahn said: “I think it's possible .
You know, I certainly heard those discussions and I think it's a reasonable prediction and I'm confident about it. "
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