China News Service, May 16th, comprehensive foreign media reported that on the 15th local time, US President Trump announced in the Rose Garden of the White House that he would establish a new coronavirus vaccine research and development working group and named it "Operation Warp" (Operation Warp) Speed). Trump said he expects to launch the vaccine by the end of this year, or even earlier.
On May 14th local time, US President Trump visited a medical distribution center in Pennsylvania without wearing a mask, which was especially conspicuous among the crowd.
According to reports, Trump introduced at a press conference that former vaccine chief of GlaxoSmithKline, Moncef Slaoui, and Gustave Perna, commander of the US Army Equipment Command, will be the heads of the vaccine R & D team.
Trump said that there are currently 14 candidate vaccines in the list of R & D. "We hope to achieve this goal before the end of this year, or even earlier." But Trump said that the progress of vaccine development has nothing to do with the US unblocking. Because most people look forward to reopening as soon as possible. "Whether or not there is a vaccine, we will return to the past (state of life)."
Slauyi said at the meeting that he recently obtained encouraging data from a vaccine clinical trial. "These data make me more confident that we will be able to provide hundreds of millions of vaccines by the end of 2020."
Subsequently, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Hazard gave a slightly different date. He stated that the goal is to provide enough vaccines for all Americans by January 2021.
Prior to this, Fudge, the chief infectious disease expert of the Federal Government, believed that it took 12 to 18 months to develop a vaccine.
The report said that on the 15th, Fudge, who announced independent isolation and observation, also appeared at a press conference. He stood behind Trump, wearing a mask, and did not speak at all.