President Trump said, “I think there will be a vaccine by the end of the year” during his coronavirus town hall on Fox News Sunday night:
. @realDonaldTrump “I think there will be a vaccine by the end of the year. Doctors will say I shouldn’t say that, but I’ll say what I think” @9NewsAUS
— Tim Arvier (@TimArvier9) May 3, 2020
He did caution that doctors and experts have sai to him, “Well you shouldn’t say that”:
Pres Trump: “I think we’re going have a vaccine by the end of the year. Now, the doctors will say, ‘Well you shouldn’t say that.’ I’ll say what I think…I think we’re going to have a vaccine much sooner rather than later.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 3, 2020
But it’s not just President Trump saying this. . .
Here’s former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a media favorite, who said the SAME THING on “Face the Nation” Sunday morning:
Optimism from @ScottGottliebMD on FTN: "Vaccines may be available by the fall in doses sufficient to ring-fence infections in cities, while we continue to study them to make sure they're safe and effective for mass inoculation … I think we're gonna be in a position to do that."
— Will Saletan (@saletan) May 3, 2020
Gottlieb thinks "what we're going to have in the fall is hopefully multiple manufacturers that have cleared early-stage safety trials and have millions of doses that could be deployed in large-scale studies inside cities." He says drug companies are planning for such deployments.
— Will Saletan (@saletan) May 3, 2020
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This is good news!
It increasingly sounds like we may have workable vaccines in relatively large scale before the end of this year. Let's pray that's the case. https://t.co/XzgRveHMLK
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) May 3, 2020
But now we wait:
Trump's coronavirus vaccine calls are 'certainly ambitious,' Roche CEO says https://t.co/JaIzguY95G
— Squawk Box Europe (@SquawkBoxEurope) May 4, 2020
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