WASHNGTON, July 28 — US President Donald Trump vowed to defeat the coronavirus by “unleashing American scientific genius” as he toured a Covid-19 vaccine facility in the swing state of North Carolina yesterday. Trump appears to have pinned his hopes on the swift emergence of a successful...
US President Donald Trump wears a protective face mask during a tour of the Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies' Innovation Center in Morrrisville, North Carolin July 27, 2020. — Reuters pic
The facility has been awarded a contract to mass produce an experimental vaccine developed by Novavax, as part of a multi-billion dollar government initiative dubbed Operation Warp Speed. Though the number of new cases has leveled off over the past few days, the US has failed to push its curve down as other nations have done through lockdowns and physical distancing.
He “has been self-isolating and working from a secure location off site,” the White House said in a statement yesterday, adding that there was “no risk of exposure to the president or the vice president.”
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