It hasn’t just been Vice President Mike Pence contradicting the president’s statements, his health and human services secretary Alex Azar has weighed in with his own corrections to Trump’s false promises.
On Monday the 2nd of March, Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force Members met with pharmaceutical company bosses and public health officials at the White House where he pressed them to develop and deploy a vaccine as soon as possible.
He then promptly suggested a vaccine for Covid-19 will be available “over the next few months”. Azar quickly pointed out “You won’t have a vaccine. You’ll have a vaccine to go into testing.” Dr Fauci and others at the meeting confirmed that clinical trials, standard for any new vaccine, would have to take place first. A vaccine is more likely to be a year or 18 months away.
Despite this and the World Health Organization (WHO) already saying it will take up to 18 months to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, a time frame much shorter than the usual two- to five-year window, Trump would, that evening, tell a rally in North Carolina that there will be a vaccine “relatively soon”.
So, as this article clearly shows, it’s better to take the word of someone like Dr Anthony Fauci with his wealth of experience and knowledge, than a wildly unprepared and woefully uneducated president that has consistently shown his lack of knowledge and his even more lacking comprehension of how viruses and vaccines actually work.
