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US President Donald Trump’s health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has confirmed a coronavirus vaccine could be ready as early as the end of 2020 or early 2021. Point to be noted that the US government’s top infectious disease expert testified at a House committee on Tuesday. He said, “We feel cautiously optimistic, based on the concerted effort and the fact we are taking financial risks, not risks to safety, not risks to the integrity of the science, but the financial risk to be able to be ahead of the game — so that when, and I believe it will be when and not if, we get favorable candidates with good results, we will be able to make them available to the American public. It would put us at the end of this calendar year and the beginning of 2021”.

It is noteworthy that the WHO (World Health Organization) reported on Tuesday that the United State’s daily death toll has been declining over the past four days, from 770 on Friday to 733 on Saturday and 690 on Sunday. There were 558 on Monday and 308 deaths on Tuesday. The downward trend in US coronavirus deaths came as Dr. Fauci testified to the House Energy and Commerce Committee alongside FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, and Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir.

They all testified that Donald Trump hasn’t asked them to slow down testing after the president said during his Tulsa rally. Dr. Fauci said, “None of us have ever been told to slow down on testing. In fact, we will be doing more testing. Right now the next couple of weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surges we are seeing in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and other states”. The White House has said the comment to slow down testing was a joke, but Trump informed reporters that he was serious about his that he’d directed the taskforce to slow down testing. It is important that the US has so far tested 27 million people with about 8.4%, or about 2.3 million people, testing positive.