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US President Donald Trump has spoken publicly for the first time since losing the election to Joe Biden six days ago.
He discussed the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine and only made a brief reference to the election result, saying “time will tell” who will take office in January.
He spoke primarily about Operation Warp Speed, stating that millions of doses of vaccine would go out the door and would be available to the general population, saying that it would return the elderly population to its “golden years.”
He recommitted not to block the United States.
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Trump delivered the White House Rose Garden statement on Operation Warp Speed, which relates to the development of a Covid-19 vaccine and the United States’ efforts to combat the pandemic.
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, reaffirms his promise of no blockades in his speech on the country’s response to Covid-19. It was his first public appearance since losing to Joe Biden.
Trump is touting rapid progress in making a vaccine available to counter the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 240,000 people in the United States. No vaccine has been formally approved, but Trump said one could be available to the general public in April.
Trump called US work on the vaccine the “largest mobilization in US history.” In the creation and development of vaccines and therapies in record time, five times faster than the 8 to 12 years it normally takes.
His comments were followed by a speech from Operation Warp Speed’s Scientific Director, Dr. Moncef Slaoui.
There have been more than 100,000 new confirmed cases in the United States reported daily for more than a week.
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President-elect Joe Biden had been beaten by Donald Trump on the battlefield state of North Carolina.
In other breaking news, Trump won North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes, avoiding a close challenge by Democratic candidate Joe Biden and keeping the battlefield for Republicans.
Trump’s victory in North Carolina leads him to 232 electoral votes. Biden, who was declared the winner of the election on November 7, has 290 electoral votes and defeated Trump by switching to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.
The Associated Press news agency, from which Stuff is taking the results of the US elections, has not yet called the presidential race in the state of Georgia, which is conducting a recount.
The goal of Operation Warp Speed is to produce and administer 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with starting doses available by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacture and distribution of Covid vaccines- 19, therapies and diagnostics, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
