Official says vaccine expected in January, countering Trump
Source: AP
A Trump administration official leading the response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.S. can expect delivery of a vaccine starting in January 2021, despite statements from the president that inoculations could begin this month.
And a growing, bipartisan chorus of lawmakers, experts and public health officials says the country is ill prepared for a projected winter surge of COVID-19.
Dr. Robert Kadlec said in an email Friday that the administration is accelerating production of safe and effective vaccines ... to ensure delivery starting January 2021." Kadlec is the Department of Health and Human Services' assistant secretary of preparedness and response.
President Donald Trump has said at rallies, debates and press conferences that a vaccine could arrive within weeks. We think we can start sometime in October, Trump said at a White House press briefing last month.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/official-vaccine-expected-january-countering-trump-73526668
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)still_one
(92,187 posts)under trumps constraints
yaesu
(8,020 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)as far as I know they haven't started. 3 months?
pie in the sky.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)from HHS, FDA, CDC, etc.
C Moon
(12,212 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)And why believe they won't water it down? Will there be a Republican version, and a Democratic one? And a third world one? I just don't believe ANYTHING these idiots do.
ck4829
(35,069 posts)mpcamb
(2,870 posts)Appointive position or
Career Gov't worker??
That's the factor you need to know before you decide to believe or not.