Trump said the project would be “big” and “fast,” comparing it to the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
WASHINGTON — Speaking from the Rose Garden on Friday afternoon, President Trump announced the launch of Operation Warp Speed, an initiative to “finish developing, and then manufacture and distribute, a proven coronavirus vaccine” on an accelerated schedule, perhaps as soon as the end of 2020.
But the drug industry executive Trump tapped as a co-director of the effort, while acknowledging that deploying a vaccine by the end of the year was an aggressive schedule, called it a “credible objective.” Fauci has previously said that it was “doable” to have a vaccine by January. But others are skeptical of Trump’s timeline. “I don’t see a path by which any vaccine is licensed — whether it’s emergency use or otherwise — until the third quarter of 2021,” Dr. Peter Hotez, a Baylor College of Medicine epidemiologist who is working on a vaccine of his own, told CNN shortly after Trump made his remarks.
That optimism was also apparent on Friday afternoon when the sound of honking from long-haul trucks parked along Constitution Avenue disrupted the Rose Garden press conference. Trump acknowledged the sound, then claimed that they were “protesting in favor of President Trump.” So far, complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, have killed 87,000 Americans. Although thousands continue to become infected with the disease each day, some believe reopening the country is necessary.
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