Will have vaccine before end of this year: Trump

October 14, 2020 23:17

The US will have a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine before the end of this year, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, assuring the country's corporate sector that if re-elected, he would deliver optimism, opportunity and growth.

Trump, who tested positive for COVID-19 on October 1 and was admitted to a military hospital for three nights and four days, declared himself cured after he was treated with an experimental antibody drug cocktail.

White House doctors have now cleared him for holding election rallies.

"The choice facing America is simple, it is the choice between historic prosperity under my pro-American policies or very crippling poverty and a steep depression under the radical left and that is what you will have is a depression," Trump said in his White House address to the Economic Club of New York as well as the Economic Clubs of Chicago, Florida, Pittsburgh, Sheboygan, Washington DC.

The US President said that if re-elected, he will deliver optimism, opportunity and growth.

'They (Democrats) will deliver pessimism, stagnation, decline and very high taxes. Simply put it's a choice between a socialist nightmare and the American dream. Under my leadership, we will have a safe and effective vaccine before the end of the year. We will swiftly defeat the China virus, in the pandemic, bring back our critical supply chains and lift our economy to unprecedented new heights," Trump said.

-- PTI

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