House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, confirmed she would get the coronavirus vaccine if approved, after some Democrats sounded the alarm that President Trump was running for her approval.
“I’m not a big needle taker. I mean, I had a hard time piercing my ear. “I’m not a big needle fan,” I told reporters at the press conference.
“I mean, they have to talk me into the flu every year under very strict pressure – but if it works as a model for others, yes, I will get vaccinated if I get approval through routine matters.”
The speaker accused the Trump administration of seeking to bypass the Phase III trial of vaccine safety, but said it trusted U.S. health officials and pharmaceutical companies to ensure safety and effectiveness.
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“I don’t like the White House putting pressure on all of this and liking statements like ‘we don’t need a clinical trial like we normally do, we can only do two instead of three’ and all that,” she said.
Pelosi added: “I salute the FDA scientists, and also some of the CDC … who have long been about the highest caliber of science that now supports the FDA working on this initiative.”
“Science is not politics but let it be determined and then people will have faith in its production,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Democratic presidential ticket has been criticized for instilling fears related to the coronavirus vaccine.
“We cannot allow politics to interfere with the vaccine in any way,” Biden said last month. “Americans have to deal with President Trump’s incompetence and dishonesty when it comes to testing and personal protective equipment. When a vaccine arrives, we can’t afford to repeat that fiasco. The stakes are too high. ”
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He said, “I believe in vaccines. I believe in scientists. I don’t believe in Trump.”
When Biden said he believed in the vaccine, he added that “this administration must respond to reassure the American people that politics will not play a role in the vaccine process.”
The remarks came after her running mate, Kamala Harris, sparked controversy by predicting that public health experts “would be confused, they would be pressured, they would be sidelined, because” [Trump’s] With elections coming up in less than 60 days, and even when they are not, they are holding on to whatever they can to prove that they are leading the way. “
When asked if he would be vaccinated before the election, he said: “Well, I think that will be an issue for all of us. I will say that I will not trust Donald Trump and he will have a reliable source of information. That he talks about the effectiveness and reliability of whatever he talks about, I won’t take his word for it. “
“I want to see what the scientists have to say,” Biden said separately in response to a question about whether the vaccine would be approved by the Trump administration. “I want full transparency over the vaccine. One of the problems is the way it plays with politics. It says a lot of things that are not true and I’m worried that people will be reluctant to take it if we have a really good vaccine.”
At a news conference earlier this month, Trump promised to provide enough coronavirus vaccine for “every American” by April. He predicted that availability would begin as early as October, and directly contradicted the long timeline given earlier in the day by Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Redfield told a panel of senators that the coronavirus vaccine should not be widely available to the majority of the American population until the summer of 2021.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fawcett said they would inoculate the coronavirus vaccine by November or December.
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“I will still put my money in November / December,” he said during a congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute panel on global epidemics.
