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The outgoing president of the United States, Donald Trump, sought this Friday to capitalize on the advances against a vaccine against Covid-19, in its first appearance in eight days and without having recognized its defeat in the presidential elections for now last November 3 in the country.
Without making a single mention of the elections or their results, the president stressed in a speech at the White House that in the last nine months his Administration “has begun the largest mobilization in US history in the development and manufacture of therapies and vaccines in record time. “
In that sense, he stressed that the operation launched by his Government for the manufacture and distribution of vaccines and treatments for Covid-19, the so-called “Operation Speed of Light”, is “unmatched anywhere in the world”.
“The leaders of other countries have called me to congratulate us for what we have been able to do, and we have helped many countries with respirators, and all the problems they are having,” he said.
LIVE: President @realDonaldTrump offers an update to Operation Warp Speed https://t.co/6UQ0SZMsCQ
– The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 13, 2020
In that sense, he wanted to attribute to his Government the progress made by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which on Monday announced that its vaccine against Covid-19 was 90 percent effective, above what is required by US regulators, which it allows to predict a quick emergency authorization for its making available to the public.
“As a result of Operation Speed of Light, Pfizer announced on Monday that its China virus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective. This far exceeds any expectations,” Trump said.
Y criticized that Pfizer said that it was not part of that operation of its Administration, what he called a “unfortunate misrepresentation, they are part“:” That’s why we gave them $ 1.95 billion, it was an unfortunate mistake they made when they said they would work towards an emergency authorization. “
According to the data verification page Snopes, used by the US media, Pfizer has received $ 1.95 billion for the manufacture and distribution of the vaccine in the US, but This does not mean that the Government has allocated funds for its research and development.
As a result of Operation Warp Speed, Pfizer announced Monday that its vaccine is more than 90% effective.
“In July, my administration reached an agreement with Pfizer to provide $ 1.95 billion to support the manufacturing and mass distribution of 100 million doses.” pic.twitter.com/KYI6qu2oly
– The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 13, 2020
In Trump’s intervention, in the Rose Garden of the White House, experts from his Government also spoke, only about Covid-19, and questions from journalists were not accepted.
This Friday the projections of the American media of the results of the elections in the last two remaining states, Georgia and North Carolina, were released.
The president-elect, the democrat Joe Biden, won the presidential election in Georgia, While Trump did it in North Carolina, which does not change the outcome of the nationwide elections in which the former vice president was declared the winner, according to media projections.
Biden accumulates 306 delegates and Trump, 232 of the total of 538 that make up the Electoral College. In the United States, the candidate who adds a minimum of 270 delegates to that body is proclaimed the winner of the Presidency.
Trump has not yet acknowledged his defeat and claims that there has been fraud, without offering proof.
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