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President Donald Trump on Tuesday is set to visit the vaccine research center at the National Institutes of Health.
The NIH visit comes as the president continues to strike an unrealistically optimistic tone in speaking about the pace of vaccine development. Earlier in the day, the president said he told vaccine developers to speed it up and added they will.
A lot of good things are happening and they're happening very fast. I said, Do me a favor, speed it up, speed it up, and they will. They're working really hard and quick, Trump said in a speech Tuesday morning to the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference in Washington.
Despite Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Faucis correction and multiple statements from top officials that a vaccine is still more than a year away, Trump persisted in claiming a vaccine would be ready relatively soon at a campaign rally in North Carolina Monday night.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-visit-nih-vaccine-research-center-coronavirus-spreads/story?id=69357583&cid=clicksource_4380645_4_heads_hero_live_hero_related
louis-t
(23,292 posts)And they will say "Sir, we will do your bidding" and they will weep. And shit.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Soon in a geologic sense?
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Very very very soon, believe me!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Ohiogal
(31,992 posts)SDANation
(419 posts)Thats kinda freaking scary. It sometimes takes years to get to clinical human trials. All vaccines given now have been thoroughly vetted and researched.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)In the OP:
"... Dr. Faucis correction and multiple statements from top officials that a vaccine is still more than a year away,"
spanone
(135,831 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)rickford66
(5,523 posts)What could go wrong ?
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Just like his claim he'd get drug prices down then he got millions from big pharma for his campaign, wink, wink. Like his claim to the farmers , or coal miners all just an act while he profited from it from under the table deals.
keithbvadu2
(36,793 posts)Trump/Pence have the best minds working on it.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Moral Compass
(1,521 posts)No matter how many times he was told that creating an effective vaccine is year long effort (at least) he folded his arms and closed his mind.
He truly thinks he is king and his commands somehow alter reality.
NickB79
(19,236 posts)More likely summer-fall 2021.
We've got a long road ahead of us.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But this time around, why not take him at his word? Every few days, demand to know how that Covid-19 vaccine is coming. People across the country are in mortal danger, and Trump promised a vaccine relatively soon. So where is it?
Also, notice what Trump said in his speech? "Do me a favor, speed it up, speed it up." Now, where have we heard those words from Trump before?