CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As of this morning, almost every state has taken steps to begin reopening, and the American people are doing an extraordinary job of continuing to take precautions while, at the same time, wanting to start. And they will be starting to resume their American way of life…
Today I want to update you on the next stage of this momentous medical initiative. It’s called Operation Warp Speed. That means big and it means fast. A massive scientific, industrial, and logistical endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project…
Its objective is to finish developing and then to manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine as fast as possible. Again, we’d love to see if we could do it prior to the end of the year…
And I just want to make something clear. It’s very important: Vaccine or no vaccine, we’re back.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Vaccine Development,” whitehouse.gov, May 15, 2020