事实检查:特朗普夸大了疫苗准备时间表
特朗普的要求:“我们有一种疫苗即将推出。它已经准备好了。它将在几周内宣布。它将被交付。” ……“强生表现很好。摩纳哥的表现很好。辉瑞的表现很好。我们还有很多其他人。”
事实检查:COVID-19疫苗目前尚未准备好。但是,辉瑞和Moderna这两家公司确实可以在11月或12月寻求紧急使用授权。
与辉瑞和Moderna一样,强生的疫苗也处于后期研究中,但强生本月初暂停了对一种无法解释的疾病的研究。
作为政府疫苗分配计划“经向速度行动”的首席顾问,蒙塞夫·斯劳伊博士本周告诉美国广播公司的鲍勃·伍德拉夫,如果在年底之前批准疫苗的使用,大约将有2000万至4000万剂被储存起来并准备就绪用于有限的人口。首先,只有高度优先的美国人(如65岁以上的人)才能使用,但到了春天,更多的美国人应该可以使用。
斯劳伊说,疫苗试验正在尽可能安全地进行,如果他感到白宫施加了不适当的压力,他将辞职。斯劳伊说,到2021年6月,美国的“所有人”都可能被免疫。
Fact Check: Trump overstates vaccine readiness timeline
TRUMP'S CLAIM: "We have a vaccine that's coming. It's ready. It's going to be announced within weeks. And it's going to be delivered." ... "Johnson & Johnson is doing very well. Moderna is doing very well. Pfizer is doing very well. And we have numerous others."
FACT CHECK: A COVID-19 vaccine isn't ready right now. But it is true that two companies -- Pfizer and Moderna -- could seek emergency use authorization in November or December.
Like Pfizer and Moderna, Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is also in late-stage studies, but Johnson & Johnson paused its trial earlier this month to investigate an unexplained illness.
As the chief adviser to the government vaccine distribution initiative Operation Warp Speed, Dr. Moncef Slaoui told ABC’s Bob Woodruff this week that if a vaccine is authorized before the end of the year approximately 20 million to 40 million doses of it will be stockpiled and ready for distribution for a limited population. At first, only high priority Americans, like those over 65, will have access, but by the springtime more Americans should have access.
Slaoui said that vaccine trials are going as fast as it’s safe to go, pledging to resign if he felt undue pressure from the White House. Slaoui said that by June 2021, it's possible "everybody" in the United States could have been immunized.