Concerns over a vaccine for COVID-19 dominated the 2020 race Wednesday, as Biden criticized Trump for politicizing science and Trump undermined his own advisors.
Trump, in arguing it was Biden who is politicizing the search for a vaccine, framed the pandemic as a blue-state problem even as cases have spiked mostly in red states. He urged Democratic governors to “open up your states,” despite warnings from public health officials that the spread of COVID-19 could intensify during the fall flu season.
As the U.S. death toll approaches 200,000, Trump repeated his claim that the total could have been much worse, more than 2.2 million by now. That projection, however, was based on taking no precautions at all.Biden was unyielding in his attack on Trump’s credibility. Yet he had to straddle a line between warning that Trump was corrupting the vaccine development process and reassuring Americans that they should trust government scientists and regulators.
Among the public health experts who briefed Biden on the development and distribution of a safe COVID-19 vaccine were Obama administration alumni Vivek Murthy, a former U.S. surgeon general, and Margaret Hamburg, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
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