TIL Desk/World/Washington/ US President Donald Trump expressed confidence that the country would have a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year and revised the number of deaths due to the disease in America up to a minimum of 80,000. “We are very confident we”re going to have a vaccine at the end of the year, by the end of the year,” Trump said on Sunday.
So far, US government health experts had cited January 2021 as the earliest date for a coronavirus vaccine to be available. “I”ll say what I think … I think we”re going to have a vaccine much sooner rather than later,” he said, without further clarifying.
Asked if he wanted the US to develop the vaccine before any other country, the President replied: “I don”t care, I just want to get a vaccine that works,” adding “if it”s another country I”ll take my hat off. “We”re so far ahead of any vaccine ever in history.”
