'We're doing things at the FDA that's never happened before. We're getting approvals so fast,' the president said.
President Donald Trump on Sunday said his administration is"confident" that America will have a coronavirus vaccine available by the end of 2020.
Trump's remarks came during a discussion about remdesivir at Fox News' America Together Returning to Work town hall this evening."We are pushing it very hard," the president said in reference to the medicine that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized for emergency use in patients with severe coronavirus earlier this week.
When asked by Fox News host Bret Baier to clarify his statement, the president reiterated that his administration believes"we're going to have a vaccine by the end of this year.""We're pushing very hard. We're building supply lines now we don't even have the final vaccine," Trump explained."If you look at Johnson and Johnson, they are doing it. Many companies are, I think, close.
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