Meanwhile, Barack Obama has criticised America’s response to coronavirus.
President Donald Trump says the US will reopen “vaccine or no vaccine”, as he discussed a project he is referring to as Operation Warp Speed.
Speaking on Saturday, he said: “I just want to make something clear. It’s very important.
“Vaccine or no vaccine, we’re back and we’re starting the process and, in many cases, they don’t have vaccines and a virus or a flu comes and you fight through it.”
Trump made this speech as he announced an objective to deliver a coronavirus vaccine by year end.
President Trump announces the two leaders of “Operation Warp Speed” to develop a coronavirus vaccine:
● Moncef Slaoui, former head of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccines division
● Army Materiel Command Gen. Gustave Perna on logistics https://t.co/U6pGht200i pic.twitter.com/a6n7JdHGru— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 15, 2020
Most experts say that it is very unlikely for a vaccine to be available by the end of the year, with 2021 seemingly being a far more realistic goal.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama has criticised America’s response to the Covid-19 crisis, describing it as “an absolute chaotic disaster”.
He continued: “More than anything this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”
The current US death toll is 86,000, with 1.4m confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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