Donald Trump

The US will produce a COVID-19 vaccine before the end of 2020.

“We are delivering lifesaving therapies and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner.”

Said on

27 August 2020 · Speech accepting the Republican nomination, White House South Lawn. Unhedged restatement of the May 2020 "hopefully by the end of the year" forecast (id 170).

Source

Full text: President Trump's 2020 RNC acceptance speech · WPTV (Scripps)

Should come true

2020

How sure they sounded

will (stated as fact)

Categories

Health

Importance

4 of 5 · Timing of a vaccine for a global pandemic.

Outcome

Accurate Happened 11 December 2020.

The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on December 11, 2020, and authorized Moderna's on December 18, 2020. Both came before the end of the year, and US vaccinations began December 14.

Evidence:

• https://ascopost.com/issues/december-25-2020/fda-issues-emergency-use-authorization-for-first-covid-19-vaccine/