WASHINGTON _ The coronavirus pandemic will "fade away" even without a vaccine, but researchers are close to developing one anyhow, President Donald Trump said.
"We're very close to a vaccine and we're very close to therapeutics, really good therapeutics," Trump said Wednesday night in a television interview with Fox News. "But even without that, I don't even like to talk about that, because it's fading away, it's going to fade away, but having a vaccine would be really nice and that's going to happen."
Trump's comments come as the U.S. continues to see 20,000 new daily cases from a virus that has killed 117,000 people in the U.S. so far.
Anthony Fauci, the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said a vaccine could be ready by the end of the year or the first few months of 2021.
