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US President Donald Trump has been bullish regarding a coronavirus vaccine so much because the experts have had to talk him off a more aggressive timeline for it. But, he seemed to shift his rhetoric on the topic and said that we don’t even need one for the virus to go away. Trump said, “I just rely on what doctors say”. He also offered his new comments regarding the potential vaccine on Friday afternoon at the White House. Trump said, “I feel about vaccines like I feel about tests: this is going to go away without a vaccine. It’s gonna go away, and we’re not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time”.

Trump also said that there could be flare-ups, including in the fall, but that it would go away regardless. He said, “There are some viruses that came and they went for a vaccine, and they never found the vaccine, and they’ve disappeared. They never showed up again. They die too, like everything else. They say it’s going to go that doesn’t mean this year doesn’t mean it’s going to be gone, frankly, by fall or after the fall. But eventually, it’s going to go away. The question is will we need a vaccine. At some point, it’s going to probably go away by itself. If we had a vaccine that would be very helpful”.

Dr. Fauci was asked on Fox News a few weeks ago about comments that Joe Biden had made, “This isn’t going to be over until we have a vaccine”. Fauci responded and said, “There’s truth to that. It’s not going to be over to the point of our being able to not do any mitigation until we have a scientifically sound, safe, and effective vaccine”. Dr. Fauci was asked a week earlier, at a White House briefing, about whether we will truly get back to normal in this country before there’s an actual vaccine that’s available to everybody? Fauci said, “If ‘back to normal’ means acting like there never was a coronavirus problem, I don’t think that’s going to happen until we do have a situation where you can completely protect the population”.