The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said this Tuesday that the United States should have a coronavirus vaccine ready “within weeks”, at the same time that specialist Anthony Fauci warned Americans to “calm down”, preparing for a vaccine-free winter, the ‘Daily Mail’ advances.
“We are going to have a vaccine ready within weeks, it could be four, it could be eight, but we are going to have it and we are getting very good results,” said Trump this Tuesday, quoted by Fox News.
The words of hope come at a time when the United States recorded more than 6.57 million Covid-19 infections, with more than 194,000 deaths. There are three North American companies in advanced clinical trials for a vaccine, however experts do not mention any specific deadline.
For his part, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the United States, together with other experts consider that the vaccine may arrive only at the end of this year or at the beginning of the next, warning that the population is prepared for a long winter, probably without a vaccine.
“We have to calm down and think about going through this fall and winter because it won’t be easy,” said Fauci during a panel discussion with Harvard Medical School. The official added that clinical trials of the vaccine are “evolving very well”, however he points out that the drug should only be available later this year or early 2021.
Trump appears to substantially shorten that period. «It will be as soon as possible. Now will it be before the election? It may be, if we start to distribute the vaccine immediately as soon as we receive it, but we are very close to getting it and that is something I look forward to and I think it will be very good for the world. Not just for us, but for the world, ”he said today.
The president took the opportunity to throw barbs at his rivals, saying that “if it were with another government, we would probably have to wait two years”, but underlines that “I am not doing this for political reasons. I want a vaccine quickly ».
The Covid-19 pandemic has infected more than 29.3 million people in 196 countries and territories, also causing about 929,000 fatalities, according to the official count at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
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