WASHINGTON (AP) – US President Donald Trump said Thursday that a Covid-19 vaccine is “ready” and will be announced “within weeks” to combat the deadly disease that has killed more than 223,000 Americans, including he debated with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for the last time before the presidential election.
The debate, just under two weeks before the crucial November 3 presidential election, began with opening remarks from both candidates, when the other’s microphone was silent.
The coronavirus dominated the first minutes of the confrontation between Trump and Biden in Nashville and President Trump called the contagion a “global problem.”
“This has been a global problem, but many countries have congratulated me on what we have been able to do,” he said at the debate in Nashville, Tennessee.
“We have a vaccine that is coming, it is ready. It will be announced in a few weeks and it will be delivered,” said the president.
Trump claimed he had done a good job with a global pandemic and said the country needs to “learn to live with it.”
In response to the president, Biden said that Trump has no plans.
“He always says that people are learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it, ”Biden said.
“I’ll take care of this. I’ll make sure I have a plan,” the former vice president said.
Biden said this is a dark winter, as it heavily impacted the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic.
Trump praised the US response to the pandemic, saying the crisis is “going away.”
On the lockdown issue, Trump said: “We don’t have the ability to lock ourselves in the basement.”
“We are not going to close and we have to open our schools,” Trump said. “The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself,” Trump said.
According to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker, the coronavirus has so far infected more than 41 million people and killed more than 1.1 million people worldwide. The United States is the most affected country with more than 8 million cases and 223,000 deaths.
The debate, just under two weeks before the crucial November 3 presidential election, began with opening remarks from both candidates, when the other’s microphone was silent.
The coronavirus dominated the first minutes of the confrontation between Trump and Biden in Nashville and President Trump called the contagion a “global problem.”
“This has been a global problem, but many countries have congratulated me on what we have been able to do,” he said at the debate in Nashville, Tennessee.
“We have a vaccine that is coming, it is ready. It will be announced in a few weeks and it will be delivered,” said the president.
Trump claimed he had done a good job with a global pandemic and said the country needs to “learn to live with it.”
In response to the president, Biden said that Trump has no plans.
“He always says that people are learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it, ”Biden said.
“I’ll take care of this. I’ll make sure I have a plan,” the former vice president said.
Biden said this is a dark winter, as it heavily impacted the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic.
Trump praised the US response to the pandemic, saying the crisis is “going away.”
On the lockdown issue, Trump said: “We don’t have the ability to lock ourselves in the basement.”
“We are not going to close and we have to open our schools,” Trump said. “The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself,” Trump said.
According to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker, the coronavirus has so far infected more than 41 million people and killed more than 1.1 million people worldwide. The United States is the most affected country with more than 8 million cases and 223,000 deaths.
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