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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat are the odds that Donald Trump has already received a COVID-19 vaccine?
There's a likely candidate for the vaccine from Moderna being fast-tracked already, and it is moving into a larger Phase 3 testing protocol at the end of July.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Trump has insisted that he be given the vaccine. He wouldn't disclose that, of course, but he has enough clout to insist that the pharmaceutical company involved include him in the current larger test group. The Trump administration and FDA will play a large role in selecting the vaccine to be used in a large-scale rollout, so there's an opportunity to do some heavy pushing on the part of the Administration.
I'm betting he has had the vaccine by now. Maybe his family and a few close associates, as well.
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)MineralMan
(146,345 posts)Who knows the truth, though? He lies about everything.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)There is no vaccine
Some are in trials, but they wouldn't have a sitting president in a trial.
He is not on any vaccine. Full stop.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)Not at all.
Ms. Toad
(34,124 posts)I made decisions about radiation therapy following my breast cancer based, in part, on the commitments I had made to others. One would think that the president of the United States ought to consider his commitments to others when engaging in potentially risky behavior.
But . . . incredibly stupid is precisely what he does all the time, and he doesn't care one whit about any commitments to anyone else.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)And there it is.
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)Danmel
(4,935 posts)To take a vaccine in the trial phase. Selfless people do that. I dont think anyone has ever called him selfless.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)He lies all the time. So we dont know.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)They don't test experimental drugs on the President. Instead they heavily screen everyone around him.
While I suppose he could insist, the pharma's are not government ran companies. They don't answer to the President. They can say no.
I can just imagine a pharma's lawyers and board going apeshit at the thought of testing on the President. If it went wrong the company would be -DEAD-, Dead and dead.
peggysue2
(10,849 posts)have all received an experimental vaccine. How the world turns!
Freethinker65
(10,094 posts)tblue37
(65,527 posts)MineralMan
(146,345 posts)lame54
(35,343 posts)I don't think it's been years yet
Just feels like it
hlthe2b
(102,498 posts)There are increasing risks from reactions to repeating this product (and any protection provided wanes quickly over a couple of weeks and no stimulation of one's own immune system occurs), but theoretically they could be doing so as often as every 4-6 weeks.
Initech
(100,131 posts)He's a morbidly obese geriatric who eats garbage food and has had no exercise since he was 20. No way any medication, treatment, or vaccine would save him.