For a truly revolutionary therapy with the potential to save millions of people's lives, every drug agency has ways to expedite approvals. They do it all the time. If someone found a legitimate cure for cancer there is no way in hell all the agencies on earth are going to sit on their hands for a decade while their governments spend trillions of dollars treating the disease with SOC

Covid vaccine got approved in 10 months. Of course it was building on tested mRNA tech, but still, there are ways to expedite trials if we think the reward is high enough.

He might have just been saying that the initial discovery that eventually becomes an FDA-approved cure would happen within 10 years. He doesn't really seem like a details kind of person.