The second is that a vaccine will be “ready within weeks”. This is also grossly misleading given health officials such as Dr Anthony Fauci maintain that even if a vaccine is announced by the end of the year,it’s unlikely to be widely available until around April 2021.
And the third is that the President himself,who was diagnosed with COVID-19 but has since recovered,is now “immune”.
Trump often makes this claim while spruiking Regeneron,the experimental antibody cocktail he was given as part of his treatment when he was hospitalised earlier this month.
What he doesn’t say in the same breath is that the drug has not yet been formally approved,let alone certified as the COVID-19"cure"he keeps touting.
What’s more,research suggests that coronavirusreinfection can occur – and the second bout of illness can be more severe.
It would be easy to pass off these exaggerated claims as Trump just being Trump,if it weren’t for the fact that lives are at stake.