Donald Trump willing to work with China on coronavirus vaccine for US
- Remarks comes day after study shows candidate developed by CanSino and China’s military research unit is safe and induces immune response
- US president has resumed daily Covid-19 press briefings as US cases continue to climb
US President Donald Trump expressed a willingness on Tuesday to work with China or other countries to bring a successful coronavirus vaccine to the United States, despite rising tensions between Beijing and Washington.
“We’re willing to work with anybody that is going to get us a good result,” Trump said, when asked if the administration would collaborate with China on a vaccine for Americans, whether China is first to develop one or not.
After a three-month hiatus from his freewheeling daily virus briefings, the president returned to the podium on Tuesday, keeping the stage to himself without the public health experts who were staples of his previous events but keeping close to scripted remarks prepared by aides.
Besides declaring support for masks as a way to fight the pandemic, he admonished young people against crowding bars and spreading the disease. It all marked a delayed recognition by Trump that the economic reopening he has been championing since April – and more importantly, his re-election – were imperilled by spiking cases nationwide.
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Scientists at Oxford University share promising news on coronavirus vaccine trials
His remarks on potential vaccines came a day after researchers said a candidate developed by China’s CanSino Biologics and China’s military research unit appeared to be safe and induced immune responses in most subjects in a closely-watched mid-stage study.
