Trump has previously said that a vaccine will be ready before the end of the year.
he expects a vaccine to be approved in October and have it be available to the general public “immediately” after that. “We’re not looking to say, ‘Gee, in six months, we’re going to start giving it to the general public,’” the president said Wednesday.
At a press briefing Friday, Trump backtracked from an end-of-year timeline and admitted, “Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month and we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April and again I’ll say even at that later stage, the delivery will go as fast as it comes.
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