Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would be vaccinated as opposed to COVID-19 if there was “a vaccine tomorrow,” he said Monday in Pennsylvania.
After an assembly with union leaders in Lancaster, CBS News asked Biden if he would be vaccinated, if Trump’s leadership had evolved before the election.
“I’d like to see what the scientists said, ” replied Biden. “Complete transparency about the vaccine”.
He said of the president: “One of the disorders is his way of playing with politics. He said so many things that are true. “
There is already a significant percentage of Americans who are willing to get vaccinated if management announces that a vaccine has been approved. A CBS News ballot published Sunday found that only 21% of electorates across the country now say they would get a vaccine as soon as they imagine if it has been lost again, up from 32% by the end of July.
Most say they would think about it, but wait to see what happens to the others before receiving one. Two-thirds of the electorate that if a vaccine were announced as early as this year, their first idea would be that it would be rushed without enough evidence, rather than a fast-rolling clinical achievement. Biden said this may just be a hindrance.
“I’m afraid if we had a very smart vaccine, other people would hesitate to take it. So it undermines public confidence,” Biden said of the president. “But pray to God that we may have her, a vaccine tomorrow, she would. If I get charged for the election, I would. We want a vaccine and we want it now. We have to pay attention to the scientists. “
Biden’s vice-candidadata, Kamala Harris, said in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” program that if there was a vaccine approved before the election, “I wouldn’t accept it as true with Donald Trump, and I would have to. “Be a credible source, information that speaks to the effectiveness and reliability of everything you talk about. I wouldn’t take your word for it. He needs us to inject him with bleach, no, I don’t think so. “
She later said in the interview that if Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert, said he was sure to take it and was getting vaccinated, she said she would accept it as true with him.
President Trump reiterated Monday that a vaccine would be produced “in record time,” and again raised that the country “could even have it in October. “
He attacked Biden and Harris for their “anti-vaccine rhetoric” and asked them to “apologize immediately for it, saying it was “just for politics. “He swore that “the vaccine will be very and very effective. “
Gabrielle Ake and Kate Rydell contributed to this report.