US will have COVID-19 vaccine 'by end of the year' – Trump
US President Donald
Trump, has expressed optimism that there would be a Coronavirus vaccine by the
end of 2020.
Trump speaking to
Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum inside the Lincoln Memorial on
the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, said the Coronavirus vaccine
will come in 2020 while heaping praise on people willing to volunteer for
clinical trials of the vaccine.
'We think we'll have
a vaccine by the end of this year. And we're pushing very hard. We're building
supply lines now and we don't even have the final vaccine,'
Trump said.
He pointed to
Johnson & Johnson as one of such companies.
'Many companies, I
think, are close,' he told the Fox News.
When asked if his
hopes of an American company producing the vaccine first didn't sound like his
usual 'America First' rhetoric, and how he would feel if another country
developed a successful vaccine first,
Trump answered, 'I
don't care,'
'I really just want
to get a vaccine that works,'I really don't care. If it's another country, I'll
take my hat off to them. We have to come up with a vaccine.' the president said.
When asked if he was
worried about people volunteering for vaccine trials, Trump replied;
'No, because they're
volunteers,' Trump said.
'They know what
they're getting into,' he added, calling those who sign up 'good people.'
Trump also said
he'll like to see therapeutics, too, that would work to cure patients who have
COVID-19.
'I would rather have
therapeutics, something to make people better, not a cure, at least a
therapeutic,' Trump said.
According to Trump
the U.S. is working alongside Australia and the United Kingdom to develop a
vaccine and said Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who became extremely ill from
COVID-19 though he was going to die.
'He thought it was
over, it was vicious,' Trump added.
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