Dr. Moncef Sloaui will co-lead the effort with Army General Gustave Perna.
While announcing the appointment of Dr. Moncef Sloaui and Army General Gustave Perna to lead a federal effort to accelerate development of a coronavirus vaccine, President Trump on Friday continued to beat the drum of reopening, saying that"vaccine or no vaccine, we're back."... [+]
A former chairman of vaccines at GlaxoSmithKline, which helped develop 14 vaccines within a decade, Slaoui isgiving up a seat on the board of the biotech company Moderna, which is developing a coronavirus vaccine. Despite what people like Fauci previously said about the need for a vaccine because of the highly infectious nature of the coronavirus, Trump again dismissed the importance of it, saying"I don't want people to think this is all dependent on a vaccine."
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