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Trump held a press conference at the White House.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden exchanged offensive comments due to their respective positions on the Corona virus vaccine.
Trump again indicated that a vaccine might be available before the November 3 presidential election and accused his Democratic rival of adopting “reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric.”
Biden expressed skepticism that Trump is listening to the words of scientists and taking a transparent approach to the vaccine.
The United States currently has six million cases of COVID-19, the highest in the world.
The virus also killed about 190,000 people and caused a major recession in the economy, high unemployment, and a loss of consumer confidence.
And it emerged last week that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all states to consider “easing the conditions” so that the vaccine could be distributed on November 1, that is, two days before the polls.
No vaccine has yet to complete required trials, raising scientists’ fears that politics, rather than safety, will lead to rushing to produce a vaccine in a hurry.
Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris questioned Trump’s credibility on the issue. On Sunday, Kamala said she did not trust Trump’s words if he said the vaccine was safe. Biden asked whether the general public would trust the president’s words or not.
On Monday, Biden said at the Labor Day celebration in Pennsylvania: “He (Trump) said a lot of things that are not honest, and I am concerned that if we come up with a vaccine, people might hesitate to take it.”
But he added: “If it is possible to get a vaccine tomorrow, I will do it, even if it costs me to lose the election, I will. We want a vaccine, and we want it now. We must listen to the instructions of the scientists.”
Trump, lagging in opinion polls, responded at a White House press conference, calling Biden a “fool.”
He said that Biden and Kamala will “destroy this country and destroy the economy,” adding that they will “immediately apologize for their reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric, this rhetoric that they are using now.”
Trump, who had been asking reporters to remove their masks when asking questions, indicated that a vaccine could be ready next month. “We will have a vaccine very soon, maybe even before the big day,” he said.
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Joe Biden was speaking in Pennsylvania.
Trump wants to have 300 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine by January, and he has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in hopes that this will speed up development of the vaccine, which normally takes years.
America’s leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said it was unlikely, but “not impossible,” that a vaccine would be approved in October.
Stephen Hahn, who works for the Food and Drug Administration, said it might be “appropriate” to approve a vaccine before laboratory trials are completed if the benefits outweigh the risks.
But those two scientists, the White House, and the directors of five major drug companies made it clear that there would be no compromise regarding the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.
There are currently three vaccines under test in the final stages, with each being tested on 30,000 volunteers who administer doses of the vaccine over a three-week period, then undergo observation to monitor for any symptoms. of the Corona virus on them, or any other side effects after a period of one week and up to two years, as reported by the Associated Press.
