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Overnight, the head of the CDC and Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the US said that even if the Corona 19 vaccine is released, the preventive effect will be only 70%, and that the general public will have to wait until next summer or fall to get the vaccine.
It was said that wearing a mask was more effective than a vaccine, but President Trump said that the mask was not good, and put a quarrel.
This is Kim Soo-hyung, correspondent in Washington.
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head of the CDC and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who appeared at a congressional hearing, predicted that the Corona 19 vaccine would have to be in the summer or fall next year for the general public to get it.
The vaccine will be released in November or December this year, but if the supply is limited and the medical staff and the vulnerable are given priority, the general public will have to wait longer.
Robert Redfield /美Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director: Maybe we expect the second quarter enabled the neutgena, the vaccine should be the third quarter of next year]
, saying immunity gained a vaccine is expected to about 70%, more masks vaccine Said it was more powerful.
[Robert Redfield / Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Masks are the most important and powerful public health weapon we have.
It can be said that
masks
protect us from coronavirus more than vaccines.]
But President Trump publicly quarreled, saying that wearing masks is bad.
[Trump/US President: Many people don't want to wear a mask.
Many people think that masks aren't good.]
President Trump continued unfounded arguments, saying that COVID-19 would naturally disappear if we had a collective mental power without a vaccine.