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 "You know it's a massive job to give this vaccine," Trump said in an
interview broadcast Thursday on Fox Business Network. "Our military
is now being mobilized so at the end of the year, we're going to be
able to give it to a lot of people very, very rapidly."
He said he believes there will be a vaccine by the end of the year
and the United States is mobilizing "our military and other forces"
on that assumption.
The White House has set a target of having 300 million vaccine doses
by the end of 2020. No such vaccine for this pathogen has been
approved though a number are under development, and producing and
distributing an effective vaccine are seen as key steps to
jumpstarting the U.S. economy.
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Trump's timetable conflicts with that given by the nation's top infectious
disease expert in Senate testimony on Tuesday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
diseases, said the idea that there will be a vaccine available by next fall,
when schools and universities resume classes, was "a bridge too far."
(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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