February 27, 2020
President Trump
Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!
I will be having a News Conference at the White House, on this subject, today at 6:00 P.M. CDC representatives, and others, will be there. Thank you!
We’re doing something else that’s important to me, because he’s been terrific in many ways, but he’s also very good on healthcare. And we really followed him very closely, a lot of states do, when Mike was Governor, Mike Pence, of Indiana. They have established great healthcare. They have a great system there. A system that a lot of the other states have really looked to and changed their systems. They wanted to base it on the Indiana system, it’s very good. He’s really very expert at the field. And what I’ve done is, I’m going to be announcing exactly right now that I’m going to be putting our Vice President, Mike Pence in charge. And Mike will be working with the professionals and doctors and everybody else that’s working. The team is brilliant. I spent a lot of time with the team over the last couple of weeks, but they’re totally brilliant. And we’re doing really well. Mike is going to be in charge, and Mike will report back to me. But he’s got a certain talent for this.
Thank you Mr. President. President Trump’s made clear from the first days of this administration, we have no higher priority than the safety, security, health and wellbeing of the American people. And from the first word of an outbreak of the coronavirus, the President took unprecedented steps to protect the American people from the spread of this disease. He recounted those briefly, but the establishment of travel restrictions, aggressive quarantine effort of Americans that are returning, the declaration of a public health emergency and establishing the White House corona task force, are all reflective of the urgency that the President has brought to a whole of government approach.
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My name is Dr. Tony Fauci. I’m the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH. Just a very quick update on the counter measure development in the form of vaccines and therapeutics. I had told this audience at a recent press briefing, that we have a number of vaccine candidates and one prototype.
I wanted to give you a feel for the timeframe of a vaccine, and what its impact might be now and in subsequent years… Is that I told you we would have a vaccine that we would be putting into trials to see if it’s safe. And if it induces a response, that you would predict would be protective in about three months. I think it’s going to be a little bit less than that. It’s probably going to be closer to two months. That would then take about three months to determine if it’s safe and immunogenic, which gives us six months. Then you graduate from a trial which is phase one of 45 people, to a trial that involves hundreds, if not low-thousands, of people to determine efficacy.
At the earliest, an efficacy trial would take an additional six to eight months. So although this is the fastest we have ever gone from a sequence of a virus to a trial, it still would not be any applicable to the epidemic unless we’d really wait about a year to a year-and-a-half. Now, that means two things. One, the answer to containing is public health measures. We can’t rely on a vaccine over the next several months to a year. However, if this virus which we have every reason to believe it is quite conceivable that it will happen, will go beyond just a season and come back and recycle next year. If that’s the case, we hope to have a vaccine.
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