US President Donald Trump estimated on Sunday that a vaccine for the new coronavirus would be available by the end of 2020. “We think we will have a vaccine by the end of this year,” he said. he declared during a special broadcast on Fox News in the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington.
“The doctors are going to say: you shouldn’t say that. I’m saying what I think,” he added. “We are pushing very hard (…) many (pharmaceutical) groups are, I think, very close,” he said.
What would be its reaction if a country discovered a vaccine before the United States? “I don’t care,” he replied. “I just want to have a vaccine that works.”
The year 2021 will be “incredible”
There are around a hundred Covid-19 vaccine projects around the world, including ten in clinical trials, according to data released by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Hammering his will to allow the country’s activities to resume in a prudent manner but “as quickly as possible”, the American president was optimistic about the economic prospects.
The year 2021 will be “incredible”, he predicted. The White House tenant has once again defended its decisions since the start of the pandemic. “I think we have saved millions of lives,” he said.
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