Trump declares, ‘Vaccine or no vaccine, we’re back’ at ceremony announcing coronavirus vaccine effort
At a ceremony to announce Operation Warp Speed, the effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine, President Trump declared, “Vaccine or no vaccine, we’re back.”
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DONALD TRUMP: We have the mightiest military in the long history of humankind. We have the best and most devoted workers ever to walk the face of the Earth, and now we're combining all of these amazing strengths for the most aggressive vaccine project in history. There's never been a vaccine project anywhere in history like this.
And I just want to make something clear. It's very important. Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back, and we're starting the process. And in many cases, they don't have vaccines, and a virus or a flu comes, and you fight through it. We haven't seen anything like this in a hundred and some odd years, 1917.
But you fight through it, and people sometimes, I guess-- we don't know exactly yet, but it looks like they become immune, at least for a short while and maybe for life, but you fight through it. But what we'd like to do, if we can, is the vaccine. And I think we're going to be successful in doing it and hopefully by the end of the year.
