Trump Predicts That CCP Virus Vaccine Will Be Ready by End of 2020

A pharmacist gives Jennifer Haller, left, the first shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for the CCP virus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle on March 16, 2020. The vaccine was developed by Moderna. Ted S. Warren/AP Photo

U.S. officials are “confident” a CCP virus vaccine will be ready by the end of this year, President Donald Trump said.

“We are very confident that we’re going to have a vaccine at the end of the year,” Trump said during a virtual town hall on May 3. “We think we’re going to have a vaccine by the end of this year and we’re pushing very hard.