Published 01:00 IST, November 2nd 2020
US Election 2020: Trump's COVID-19 vaccine before Nov 3 promises blasted by health experts
With the US presidential election just around the corner, health experts have blasted Donald Trump’s COVID-19 vaccine before election day promises.
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With US presidential election just around corner, health experts have blasted Donald Trump’s COVID-19 vaccine before election day promises. Trump and White House visors have repeatedly said that hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses would be "rey to go" by Election Day.
However, on October 30, just three days before election day, doctors have said that COVID-19 vaccinations were just ar false campaign promise. Medical experts, including molecular medicine professor Eric Topol and Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that failure to deliver vaccine by Election Day was expected.
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Trump and White House Coronavirus Task Force he, Vice President Mike Pence, have vowed since first week of March to have vaccine available "very soon". Back in September, US President, while accusing FDA and CDC health experts of playing politics, h even said that country will have "vaccine very soon, maybe even before a very special day." Trump has repeatedly also blamed health experts for his ministration's inability to oversee rollout of a vaccine before vember 3.
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Trump criticised for COVID-19 vaccine promises
w, with election just a day away, physicians have criticised Trump’s continued claims that COVID-19 vaccines are imminent. Dr. Tom Frieden, who is an infectious disease expert and former director of CDC, said on Friday that deliberate disinformation makes this "Scariest. Halloween. Ever."
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Previously, CDC h said that vember 15 is when states should be rey to distribute COVID-19 vaccines; however, independent medical visers said that it is a very aspirational date at best.
Several political critics have also criticised Trump’s Election Day vaccine promise as ar unfulfilled political talking point akin to sourn border wall. While Trump, on Friday, reiterated that a safe vaccine will be delivered in just a matter of weeks, Dr. Renuga Vivekananda, who is an infectious disease physician with CHI Health and Creighton University, asked "Where’s vaccine".
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With just hours until election and more than 86 million votes alrey cast, time is running out for Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden to change contours of a race framed largely around incumbent’s handling of pandemic. Trump, who calls himself an optimist, said that nation is "rounding turn" from outbreak that still kills about 1,000 US citizens each day. US President said that a vaccine would be delivered "in a matter of weeks" despite fact that any vaccine is yet to receive approval.
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01:00 IST, November 2nd 2020