With just two weeks until elections, United States President Donald Trump and his Democrat contender Joe Biden on Friday met on the stage o...
With just two weeks until elections, United States President Donald Trump and his Democrat contender Joe Biden on Friday met on the stage once more for the last presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee. Trump opened the debate with a claim that his government will release a vaccine against the coronavirus “within weeks”.
“We have a vaccine that’s coming, it’s ready, it’s going to be announced within weeks,” Trump said at the debate, which was moderated by NBC’s Kristen Welker. “It will be distributed very quickly.”
But his claim lacks evidence. Top health officials in the United States have repeatedly said that a vaccine may not be widely available until next summer.
In response to the first question of the night on coronavirus, Trump claimed 2.2 million people were “expected to die”, and the pandemic was “rounding the turn”, although he did not provide any studies or figures to back his claim.
More than 2,22,000 people have died from coronavirus in the US and has affected more than 84 lakh million people since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Trump also did not take responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Americans due to the virus. “I take full responsibility,” he said, and continued: “It’s not my fault...
