President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United States will have a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine by the end of this year.
“We are very confident that we’re going to have a vaccine at the end of the year, by the end of the year,” Trump said in a Fox News.
He also said he would recommend the reopening of schools and universities in next September, stating “I want them to go back.”
The vaccine prediction moves up the timeline that has been discussed as the United States and other countries race to be the first to bring out a way to prevent COVID-19.
Trump insisted he would be very much happy to see another country researchers to beat US researchers to make the medicine first, saying “if it’s another country I’ll take my hat off.”
“I don’t care, I just want to get a vaccine that works.”
While asked about the risks during human trials in a research process that is going unusually immediately, Trump replied “they’re volunteers. They know what they’re getting into.”
Trump appeared to acknowledge that he was getting ahead of his own advisors on the prediction for the vaccine.
