Name: Trump a Covid-19 vaccine and the election DC Diary
Uploaded: 2020-09-11T23:10:06.000Z
Duration: 1 min 59 s
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KIRAN STACEY: Once upon a time, Donald Trump

was a prominent vaccine sceptic, frequently telling

interviewers that he believed childhood vaccinations were

to blame for what he called an autism epidemic.

Well, now, with his re-election chances depending in part

on whether or not a coronavirus vaccine will be approved

in time for November's vote, the president

has changed his tune, instead calling out

his opponents for what he calls anti-vaccination rhetoric.

Meanwhile, those opponents, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,

have been out there warning about the risks

that they see of rushing through a vaccine approval

Public health scientists are delighted that the president is

But they're worried that the way in which this is becoming

an election issue risks undermining confidence

not only in a coronavirus vaccine, but in vaccines

A poll recently out by the Kaiser Family Foundation

they wouldn't take a coronavirus vaccine if it was approved

need to take a vaccine for the coronavirus

But we believe it is somewhere in the range of 60% to 70%.

Against this backdrop, the pharmaceutical companies

that make vaccines are beginning to get worried.

desperate for some kind of pre-election boost

and his opponents, who are casting aspersions on the US

drug approvals process, they're worried that their reputations

to put out a rare joint public statement,

saying that they won't push for approval of their vaccines

submitting their plans for approval until after November?

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