Trump Pushed a Vaccine Timeline That Made the Pandemic Sound Smaller Than It Was
At a White House meeting and in public remarks on March 2, Trump talked as if a coronavirus vaccine could arrive in months, brushing against the much slower timetable his own public health officials were describing. That kind of overpromising was already a political habit; in a fast-moving outbreak, it became a real liability. It encouraged false comfort at exactly the moment the country needed blunt, disciplined preparation.
First recorded Mar 2, 2020·Meaningfully updated Mar 2, 2020
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Trump Pushed a Vaccine Timeline That Made the Pandemic Sound Smaller Than It Was
At a White House meeting and in public remarks on March 2, Trump talked as if a coronavirus vaccine could arrive in months, brushing against the much slower timetable his own public health officials were describing. That kind of overpromising was already a political habit; in a fast-moving outbreak, it became a real liability. It encouraged false comfort at exactly the moment the country needed blunt, disciplined preparation.
At a White House meeting and in public remarks on March 2, Trump talked as if a coronavirus vaccine could arrive in months, brushing against the much slower timetable his own public health officials were describing. That kind of overpromising was already a political habit; in a fast-moving outbreak, it became a real liability. It encouraged false comfort at exactly the moment the country needed blunt, disciplined pr…
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