Washington: President Donald Trump on Friday touted “tremendous progress” on combating the coronavirus pandemic and said the development of therapeutics and vaccines is going “incredibly well.”
“In terms of transportation and logistics, we have over 2 million ready to go — if it checks out for safety,” Trump said of the vaccines currently being developed and tested, none of which have yet been proven safe or effective against the virus.
Trump also repeated his prediction that a vaccine would be developed before the end of the year — a timeline his top health officials have said is possible, but far from certain. Creating vaccines for new diseases generally take several years — if they work at all.
“I said by the end of the year, I think it will be a lot sooner than that,” he said Friday, and called development of a vaccine in record time “easy.”
