Dr. fauci is in the background with a mask on, but it kinda looks like a muzzle in the picture... Just imagine Donald's rushed and unsafe vaccine growing a set of horns on every American that took it! MAGA. Didn't the Klingons fuck up their foreheads like that on Startrek?
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Trump's suggestion that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months has been refuted by prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers.
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Trump names ex-pharma executive, Army general to lead coronavirus vaccine effort
Trump's suggestion that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months has been refuted by prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers.
President Donald Trump on Friday announced a team of two men to lead his administration’s effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine, dubbed “Operation Warp Speed.”
The team consists of Moncef Slaoui, the former head of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline's vaccines division, and Gen. Gustave Perna, a four-star U.S. Army general, Trump said during a press conference in the White House Rose Garden.
Slaoui will serve as the chief scientist for the White House initiative and Perna will serve as its chief operating officer, said Trump, whose suggestions that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months have been repeatedly refuted by prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers.
Trump repeated his timeline objective Friday, saying he wanted a vaccine ready "by the end of the year if we can."
"We would love to see if we can do it prior to the end of the year. We think we are going to have some very good results coming out very quickly," he said.
Trump also indicated that he would urge state governments to reopen their economies regardless of whether the timeline was met, and at one point suggested, without providing evidence, that the virus could simply disappear even without the introduction of a vaccine.
"It's not solely vaccine-based. Other things have never had a vaccine and they go away," he said.
"I think we're going to have a vaccine in the pretty near future," the president said. "And if we do, we're going to really be a big step ahead. And if we don't, it'll be like so many other cases where you had a problem come in, it'll go away at some point, it'll go away. It may flare up and it may not flare up."
"Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back," he added.
Trump, who was not wearing a face covering, was flanked by several top administration officials and health experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, who the White House had said earlier this week would self-quarantine after possible exposure to COVID-19.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, was standing right behind Trump during the press conference Friday and was wearing a face mask.
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