Trump: a vaccine will be ready "relatively soon" [View all]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday is set to visit the vaccine research center at the National Institutes of Health.
The NIH visit comes as the president continues to strike an unrealistically optimistic tone in speaking about the pace of vaccine development. Earlier in the day, the president said he told vaccine developers to “speed it up” – and added “they will.”
“A lot of good things are happening and they're happening very fast. I said, ‘Do me a favor, speed it up, speed it up,’ and they will. They're working really hard and quick,” Trump said in a speech Tuesday morning to the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference in Washington.
Despite Director of the ‘National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Dr. Fauci’s correction and multiple statements from top officials that a vaccine is still more than a year away, Trump persisted in claiming a vaccine would be ready “relatively soon” at a campaign rally in North Carolina Monday night.
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