Trump tries to promote coronavirus vaccine ‘in a matter of weeks’ as Dr. Fauci says America has to ‘duck’

President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the United States could have a coronavirus vaccine in four weeks, as Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Americans to ‘duck’ to prepare for the winter.

“We will have a vaccine in a matter of weeks, it could be four weeks, it could be eight weeks, but we will have it and we are getting very good results and it really looks good,” Trump said on “Fox and friends.”

His hopeful words come as the United States has affected more than 6.57 million COVID infections and has had more than 194,000 deaths. There are three companies in the US in advanced clinical trials for a vaccine, but the experts don’t give a specific schedule.

President Donald Trump said America could have a cure for coronavirus in four weeks

Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Americans to ‘duck’ to prepare for the winter.

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other experts have said that there could be a vaccine later this year or early next year.

And he warned last week that Americans should prepare for a long winter.

“We have to duck and get through this fall and winter because it won’t be easy,” Fauci said during a panel discussion with Harvard Medical School.

He also said vaccine trials are “progressing very well” and he is hopeful one will be available by the end of this year or early 2021.

Trump, in his 47-minute interview on Fox News Tuesday morning, increased that timeline.

‘It will be soon. Now will it be before the elections? It could be in terms of whether we have something and we will start to deliver it immediately after we receive it, but we are very close to receiving the vaccine, and that is something I look forward to, and I think it will be very good for the world not only for us, for the world, ‘he said.

He then bragged that this timeline was just something his administration could accomplish, beating up Democratic rival Joe Biden by saying that such a fast pace couldn’t be achieved if Barack Obama were still president.

“If it was another administration, he would have been talking two years, if he’s lucky, before he got to this point,” he said.

I’m not doing it for political reasons. I want the vaccine fast. If this was what the O-Biden administration called it, you would not have a vaccine for a year, ” he said.

The race for a vaccine is around the world to defeat the virus that has killed more than 925,000 people.

At the same time, nine drug companies pledged earlier this month to uphold scientific standards and not be pressured to rush a cure on a political schedule.

Chinese officials have said that a vaccine being developed there could be ready for use by the general public in November.

China has four COVID vaccines in the final stage of clinical trials. But any vaccine would have to be approved by the FDA in the United States.

President Trump, in an interview with ‘Fox & Friends’ on Tuesday morning, boasted that only his administration could work on a COVID cure so quickly

Most experts say a coronavirus vaccine won’t be ready until late 2020 or early 2021

Meanwhile, Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of the world’s largest vaccine maker, said Monday that it would take until the end of 2024 for everyone to be inoculated against the virus.

Poonawalla, director of the Serum Institute of India, told the Financial Times that drug companies are nowhere near producing a vaccine on the massive scale required.

He said his company would produce a billion doses when a cure was found. It would take 15 billion doses to inoculate the world