US President Donald Trump is driving the development of a vaccine against the coronavirus in the United States and speaks of the greatest effort since World War II. „There has never been a vaccine project like this in history,“ Trump said in Washington yesterday.
“Since the Second World War, nobody has seen anything like what we do in our country now. Incredible. ”It is an enormous scientific and industrial effort. Work on a vaccine is running at „record-record-record speed“.
Operation Warp Speed
Trump’s government has launched an operation called Operation Warp Speed to advance the development of a coronavirus vaccine. The name goes back to the fictitious „warp drive“ in the TV series „Spaceship Enterprise“, which can fly faster than the speed of light.
The US President said again that the goal is to develop a vaccine by the end of the year, maybe a little earlier or a little later. As soon as there is such a preparation, the military will also be involved in organizing the rapid distribution of the vaccine in the country. „We are preparing. It’s risky, it’s expensive, but we’re going to save a lot of time. We’ll save years if we do it right. ”
„We have no ego in this regard“
Trump promised that the United States would work closely with other countries on this issue, regardless of who started developing a vaccine. „We have no ego in this regard.“
More than 1.41 million infections
In the United States, however, the number of registered infections rose by 27,191 to 1,412,121, as the CDC disease agency announced yesterday. The deaths increased by 2,043 to 85,990. The United States is by far the country with the most CoV deaths worldwide. Worldwide, more than 305,000 people have now died after being infected with the novel corona virus.
More than three-quarters of the 305,424 fatalities in total were recorded in the United States and Europe, according to a count by the AFP news agency based on official data. The number of infections detected worldwide rose to more than 4.5 million.
