WASHINGTON DC, KOMPAS.com – President of the United States (US) Donald Trump claiming that the vaccine corona virus it may be available in a few weeks.
“We are very close to the vaccine,” he said during a question and answer session with voters in Pennsylvania broadcast on ABC News on Tuesday (15/9/2020).
“We only need a few weeks to get it, you know – it could be three weeks, four weeks,” Trump said as quoted from The Telegraph.
Hours earlier, Trump told Fox News that coronavirus vaccine could be available in “four weeks, could be eight weeks”.
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In Pennsylvania, Trump also said “herd mentality“which seems like he mispronounced”herd immunity”.
At that time, he said that the corona virus would go away by itself.
Trump’s false statement led to ridicule from Twitter users to Trump.
Scientists have warned that implementing a strategy herd immunity can cause a high mortality rate.
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Democrats have expressed concern that Trump is putting political pressure on government health regulators and scientists to agree to an accelerated vaccine.
They see the vaccine acceleration being used as a political tool to propel Trump’s name ahead general election ( elections) on November 3.
Experts, including US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, say vaccine approval is likely towards the end of the year.
When asked why Trump had underestimated the severity of the pandemic Covid-19 which has now killed nearly 200,000 people in the US.
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Trump replied that he did not underestimate it. “I do not underestimate it. In fact, in many cases, I raised him in action, “Trump replied.
But Trump told journalist Bob Woodward during an interview set out in the book Rage that he had deliberately decided to “take it easy” to avoid worrying the US people.
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