In an ongoing effort to politicize the progression of a COVID-19 vaccine, President Donald Trump said Thursday that the unselected had planned a “political coup” and conspired to slow the progression of the vaccine in order to obstruct his reelection bid. .
“They’re going to make a little political coup. ” Let’s wait a little while for the vaccine. “Have you seen that? Trump told his supporters at a rally in Jacksonville, Florida.
Comments are a kind of indistinct conspiracy over anonymous detractors, which is to recommend that officials of their own government interfere in a procedure over which they have no jurisdiction, or recommend that a scientific firm be invaded by officials with a political agenda. Take down the president.
It would be the first time I’d made such a suggestion.
Comments make Trump’s effort to undermine science in the midst of a crusade to call for a victory in vaccines ahead of the election after an ongoing attack on the Food and Drug Administration, which he said last month as a component of a “deep state” plot to undermine his choice.
Even though a vaccine is in its early stages, Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease specialist, said Thursday that a “large proportion” of the U. S. population would not be vaccinated against the new coronavirus this year.
His comments on Facebook Live once rejected President Trump’s repeated positive claims about a timetable and effective release of vaccines and wide distribution.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, also told Congress that a vaccine is unlikely to be widely available until spring or next summer. In his testimony last week, Redfield said any vaccine ended. this year will be “a very limited amount and will have to be prioritized” for the most vulnerable groups.
Trump countered Redfield’s estimate of the widespread launch of a vaccine, saying it would take place before the end of the year. Trump also said “all Americans” will have to be vaccinated until April.
On Wednesday, Trump made accusations of a “political decision” made through FDA fitness experts following reported efforts to factor in stricter rules for evaluating a coronavirus vaccine, suggesting that stricter rules first had to be “approved by the White House. “
“I think it’s a political resolution more than anything else,” Trump said.