More than six months into the coronavirus pandemic, and much of the country is waiting for

the same lifeline.

The race is on to find a coronavirus vaccine.

Now, some of the nation's leading biotech companies report fast-track progress in developing

vaccines and treatments.

We hope if everything goes to plan that we could have a vaccine by early next year or

even by the end of this year.

150 different coronavirus vaccines are in development around the world, although fewer than a dozen

have reached phase three of trials.

In May, the U.S. government launched Operation Warp Speed, pledging $10 billion to help

drug companies get a vaccine in record time.

But as the trials continue, some lack trust in the process.

New York and California say their states will set up independent panels of experts to

review the vaccine before recommending it to their citizens.

People have to feel that it's safe.

Here's New York Governor Andrew Cuomo earlier this week.

And we're putting together our own group to determine once the FDA says it's safe, we'll

have a New York group of doctors and some of the best doctors around the world who will

review what FDA did.

So I'll be able to say to New Yorkers, it is safe.

In the National Medical Association, the country's oldest organization for black physicians,

say they will conduct their own independent review of the vaccine.

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