United States President Donald Trump has unveiled “Operation Warp Speed,” an initiative aimed at developing a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, although he vowed the country would reopen with or without one.
Owing to the unprecedented global health crisis, the businesses across the world have been shut down and the monetary impacts of the outbreak are also worrying the leaders. During such times, while the US has recorded most deaths in the world, Trump said ‘it’s very important’ to start the process of ‘Opening Up America Again’.
Further showing optimism about restarting the country, the US President that ‘in many cases’ the vaccine is not available so ‘you fight through it’. He also admitted that the world has not witnessed anything similar to COVID-19 pandemic in ‘100 years’.
Donald Trump said, ‘And I just want to make something clear. It’s very important: Vaccine or no vaccine, we’re back. And we’re starting the process.’
‘And in many cases, they don’t have vaccines, and a virus or a flu comes, and you fight through it. We haven’t seen anything like this in 100-and-some-odd years ‘ 1917,’ he added.
Trump made this known during remarks in the White House Rose Garden on Friday that had to compete with honking from protesting truck drivers.
Unveiling details of “Operation Warp Speed”, a name that references a concept popularised by Star Trek and other science fiction, Trump said: “That means big and it means fast. A massive scientific, industrial and logistical endeavour unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project.”
He added: “Its objective is to finish developing and then manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine as fast as possible. Again, we’d love to see if we can do it prior to the end of the year.”
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Standing just behind him, Anthony Fauci, an infectious diseases expert wearing a face mask, cast his glance down and reached to adjust his tie. Trump did not wear a face mask.
In testimony to Congress on Tuesday, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned: “There’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective.”
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