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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is mobilizing the US military. USA To distribute a COVID-19 vaccine when available and will focus first on older Americans.
“You know it is a massive job to administer this vaccine,” Trump said in an interview broadcast Thursday on Fox Business Network. “Our army is now mobilizing, so by the end of the year, we will be able to give it to many people very, very quickly.”
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He said he believes there will be a vaccine by the end of the year and that the United States is mobilizing “our military and other forces” on that assumption.
The White House has set a goal of having 300 million doses of vaccines by the end of 2020. No such vaccine has been approved for this pathogen, although several are being developed, and the production and distribution of an effective vaccine are considered key steps. to boost the United States economy.
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Trump’s schedule conflicts with that given by the nation’s top infectious disease expert in Senate testimony Tuesday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the idea that there will be a vaccine available for next fall, when schools and universities resume classes, was “a bridge too far.”
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