The US president's comments come hours after a national security advisor tested positive. FMTNews
July 28, 2020 8:45 AMWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump vowed to defeat the coronavirus by “unleashing American scientific genius” as he toured a Covid-19 vaccine facility in the swing state of North Carolina on Monday.
The facility has been awarded a contract to mass produce an experimental vaccine developed by Novavax, as part of a multi-billion dollar government initiative dubbed Operation Warp Speed. The US is by far the worst-hit country in the world, with more than 4.2 million confirmed Covid-19 cases and nearly 150,000 deaths.
“It’s not masks. It’s not shutting down the economy. Hopefully, it is American ingenuity that will allow for therapies and vaccines to ultimately conquer this,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told ABC News on Sunday. Others who have been previously infected include Vice-President Mike Pence’s spokesman Katie Miller, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top fundraiser for the Trump campaign and his elder son’s girlfriend.The US has spent more than US$6.3 billion since March to fund vaccine development efforts under Operation Warp Speed.
The trial is being co-conducted by the National Institutes for Health across the US and is expected to enrol approximately 30,000 adult volunteers.The first volunteer, a black woman identified as Robyn, participated in a video chat hosted by the NIH on Monday, telling viewers her friends and relatives had initially told her “it was a bad idea”.
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