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Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a 'miracle' to be right.
NBC "News" / Comcast ^ | May 15, 2020 | By Jane C. Trimm

Posted on 05/16/2020 5:58:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months, an accelerated timeline that prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers say is unlikely absent a miracle.

"We're looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before," Trump said Friday during in a Rose Garden event centered on his administration's efforts to fast-track a vaccine.

“Vaccine work is looking VERY promising, before end of year,” Trump tweeted on Thursday.

“I think it’s possible you could see a vaccine in people’s arms next year — by the middle or end of next year. But this is unprecedented, so it’s hard to predict,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Walter Orenstein, a professor at Emory University and the associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center, said a vaccine in less than a year would be “miracle.”

While technically possible, he added, it is unlikely.

“There’s a lot of things that could go wrong,” Orenstein said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; fakenews; janectimm; janetimm; journalism; media; pandemic
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1 posted on 05/16/2020 5:58:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another huge mistake by Trump in his response to Virus Fraud.

A vaccine to any Sars virus has never been developed and there is no reason to believe that will suddenly and miraculously change. Trump’s policy should be: We are working on a vaccine and treatment options but have no idea when or if those things will happen, hospitals are fully capable of treating anyone who contracts the virus, and states must end all phony plandemic restrictions immediately.


2 posted on 05/16/2020 6:06:41 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why should Trump (or anyone) be “right” about this?

The most probable time of a successful coronavirus vaccine is “never”.


3 posted on 05/16/2020 6:09:15 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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4 posted on 05/16/2020 6:10:41 AM PDT by C210N
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And yet some Demonrat bastions plan to stay shut down until there is a vaccine.


5 posted on 05/16/2020 6:13:39 AM PDT by Old Yeller (The answer to 1984 is 1776)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Very sadly Kushner apparently has Trump all bought in on the disastrous Big Pharma/Big Tech schemes to bankrupt and control our country.


6 posted on 05/16/2020 6:15:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I like how “could” turns into “Trump promises”.


7 posted on 05/16/2020 6:16:12 AM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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To: KyCats

That’s actually a very good strategy. I like it.

I hope that Pres. Trump finds a way to circumvent his apparent blunder. I guess that if anyone can, it’s him.


8 posted on 05/16/2020 6:18:14 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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Funny how the media, upon instructions from their Dem masters, downplay a vaccine, but want to hold the country hostage and in lockdown until there is a vaccine...
9 posted on 05/16/2020 6:21:47 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Fred Nerks
"Experts say he needs a 'miracle' to be right."

You mean the same commie supporting, socialist haters of the creative forces of Capitalism , those EXPERTS?

The same experts that said Donald Trump needed a miracle to be elected ?

The same experts who predicted Donald Trump's impeachment? ( actually a hoax.)

The same experts who said President Trump needed a miracle for our economy to recover , as they predicted back in 2016?

Apparently the experts have not gotten the news yet. We live in an age of miracles, brought about by tried and true American values.

Let the miracles continue. They are ordinary, and unexpected by the left because of 40 years of burgeoning Democrat socialism.Only the government can get things done? Nope.

Watch "Operation Warp Speed."

We will win this war against China. Its not only a war against the virus. It is a test of the will of the People and both the Dems and the Chinese are betting that the American People will fail that test and become subjugated. And the lefty Socialists and their Public Health "scientists" are losing that battle.

Trump supporters are winning that battle and we will be Victorious over China and the virus. The experts? Not so much.


10 posted on 05/16/2020 6:26:18 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism:)
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“I think it’s possible you could see a vaccine in people’s arms next year

By then the Covid will have pretty much run it's course just like all past epidemics. Numbers of people contracting it then will be so insignificant that it won't be worth reporting on........

11 posted on 05/16/2020 6:28:01 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Would they rather have a president who says, “It’s hopeless! We’re all gonna die!” or one who is optimistic?


12 posted on 05/16/2020 6:33:12 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/30/848478507/fauci-says-its-doable-to-have-millions-of-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-by-january


13 posted on 05/16/2020 6:35:11 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Smart ploy given that he can play it right through the election and past the election. Maybe we will and maybe we won't, but that's immaterial. Even dems who hate him know he either keeps his word or keeps at it until he does and never lets up. For the sheeply dems who fear this disease, a Trump in charge of the vaccine vs a Biden ... it's not even a 'who's better at health care question' ... it's who does what he says and achieves things in life. That would be Trump.

So even though a perfect vaccine is a pipe dream and the whole notion of it is used to control the sheeples ... once again it looks like Trump has taken lemons and made lemonade.

14 posted on 05/16/2020 6:35:44 AM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He waved his magic wand and brought jobs back, maybe he is waving it again for a vaccine.


15 posted on 05/16/2020 6:44:08 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Fauci made several stops on different shows touting a vaccine by January. He didn’t just say it once....but many, many times.


16 posted on 05/16/2020 6:44:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: cdcdawg

I didn’t hear a lot of certainty in those words. It sounds like a speculation. Of course, the media has jumped on it, and twisted it into something else to make up a story. That’s their modus operandi, and why they have no credibility anymore. Especially when it comes to Trump.


17 posted on 05/16/2020 6:45:18 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Fai Mao

There’s a difference between optimism and being realistic. Right now our liberties and livelihood trump the virus. Pardon the pun. The Republic can’t wait for a vaccine.


18 posted on 05/16/2020 6:48:48 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Experts” said we would have 2 million dead.


19 posted on 05/16/2020 6:50:32 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The trolls are out this morning. Fake news gets them energized.


20 posted on 05/16/2020 6:55:27 AM PDT by ARW
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