Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has promised that she will not take any coronavirus vaccine recommended by Donald Trump while debating Vice President Mike Pence
The question of a vaccine came up at the first vice presidential debate on Wednesday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kamala Harris said, ‘If Donald Trump tells us we should take it, then I’m not taking it.’
She said that she would only consider taking a vaccine if doctors like White House coronavirus doctor Doctor Anthony Fauci say it’s safe to take.
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‘If the public health professionals, if Dr Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it, absolutely,’ she said.
Pence responded and said Harris needs to face the ‘reality’ that the Trump administration ‘will have a vaccine before the end of the year.’
‘Stop playing politics with people’s lives,’ Pence said. ‘The fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in a vaccine, if the vaccine emerges during the Trump administration, I think is unconscionable.’
Harris hit hard at the President Donald Trump at the opening of the debate and his handling of coronavirus pandemic.
‘The American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country,’ she said. ‘They knew what was happening, and they didn’t tell you.’
Trump released a video on Tuesday where he said that ‘the vaccines are coming momentarily’ just after he left Walter Reed hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.
However, new rules from The Food and Drug Administration will make it harder for the president to release a vaccine, causing him to tweet out his frustration.
‘New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day,’ Trump tweeted. ‘Just another political hit job!’
Meanwhile, the White House was swept with a wave of coronavirus cases, with high-profile staffers to low-level workers being infected, with the total reaching 34.
There are 7.5 million coronavirus cases in American and more than 210,000 are dead.
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