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Former Vice President Joe Biden reacted to the news of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, warning that an effective vaccination remains “months” away and urging Americans to continue social distancing and wearing masks.

President Donald Trump on Friday celebrated Pfizer’s development of a coronavirus vaccine, promising to deliver it quickly to high-risk individuals in the country.

Russia claims its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine candidate, which has only been tested with a tiny group of trial volunteers, is at least two percent more effective than the vaccine announced by American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Monday.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci stated that distribution of a coronavirus vaccine will “likely” begin next month and that he thinks people who are not high on the priority

The company’s break-through drug will be purchased and distributed to Americans under Operation Warp Speed.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told Good Morning America on Monday morning that while the development of an effective coronavirus vaccine was “good news,” it was “bad news” that it would arrive while President Donald Trump is in office.

Former Vice President Joe Biden welcomed new about advances toward a coronavirus vaccine Monday but said that it would be “many more months” before it was widely available, and warned Americans to continue wearing masks.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Brazil’s most populated city, Sao Paulo, on Sunday to protest Sao Paulo state governor Joao Doria’s campaign to import Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine candidates and, in general, to oppose leftist pandemic policies.

The first volunteer for Israel’s new coronavirus vaccine has been released from hospital after receiving the initial dose in human trials, saying he feels “great” and hopes the “whole world” will soon benefit from the Israeli vaccine.

Three more Democrat governors join CA Gov. Gavin Newsom in saying they will not trust a virus vaccione approved while Trump is in office.

Nigeria’s government on Tuesday urged people who looted coronavirus vaccine candidates stored in a federal warehouse in the national capital, Abuja, in recent days to return them. Minister of State at Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health Adeleke Olorinmibe Mamora spoke

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro insisted on Monday that he would not allow the government to mandate any available coronavirus vaccine, stating that a judge “cannot decide if you are going to take a vaccine or not.”

A volunteer who died after participating in AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine trials in Brazil received a placebo, not the vaccine, several news outlets from inside and outside the South American country reported Wednesday.

Chinese state media reported on Tuesday that officials had injected roughly 60,000 “volunteers” with four experimental coronavirus vaccine candidates.

During a press conference on Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced the creation of a Scientific Safety Review Workgroup that will review vaccines that are approved by the FDA. Newsom said, “California, today, is launching now, more formally, a

Joe Biden said that he was open to mandating a coronavirus vaccine during an ABC News town hall event in Philadelphia on Thursday.

Trump on Wednesday described his illness with COVID-19 as a “blessing in disguise” because of his experience with Regeneron. “I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it. This is a blessing in disguise,” Trump said in a video posted to social media.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), overcoming the White House’s initial opposition, released new safety guidelines Tuesday for drugmakers working for months on developing a Chinese virus vaccine. The move could prevent or delay introducing a potentially safe and effective final product before Election Day and beyond.

Thousands in South Korea were injected with compromised flu vaccines in recent weeks, Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) admitted on Sunday.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to send well-wishes to President Donald Trump during his regular Sunday night television broadcast, blaming Trump for testing positive for the Chinese coronavirus and expressing hope that the virus will make him “more human.”

“That sounds like a political move,” Trump said during the White House press briefing on Wednesday, noting that the FDA’s updated guidance would only lengthen the time that a vaccine could be released to the public.

Wednesday on CNN, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said she would be skeptical of any vaccine for COVID-19 approved by the Trump administration unless National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci and other scientists were taking the vaccine.

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that at least 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine would be ready by the end of 2020.

Chinese state media admitted Wednesday that a brucellosis outbreak in northwestern China caused by a state-run vaccine manufacturer’s negligent use of expired air filters was “worse than earlier revealed,” as the number of confirmed cases of the bacterial disease continues to rise.

Thousands of residents of the northwest Chinese city of Lanzhou have been diagnosed with brucellosis, a highly infectious bacterial disease after they were exposed to polluted air from a state pharmaceutical company late last year.

“Number one, it’s not more effective than a vaccine,” he said, noting that he called Redfield to discuss his testimony on Capitol Hill.

CDC Director Robert Redfield said face masks are better at protecting against the coronavirus disease than a potential vaccine. 

The Communist Party of China is struggling to convince citizens to receive influenza vaccinations to protect them in the upcoming flu season after years of corruption scandals involving faulty, watered-down, or otherwise useless vaccines, the South China Morning Post noted on Monday.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte pardoned a U.S. Marine convicted of murdering a Filipino to help the country’s chances of receiving a future U.S.-made coronavirus vaccine, Duterte’s spokesman claimed on Thursday.

Only one out of five voters said they would get a free coronavirus vaccine “as soon as possible” if one became available, the majority indicating they would “consider it” but ultimately wait it out.

“We remain on track to deliver a vaccine before the end of the year, and maybe even before November 1,” he said. “We think we can probably have it sometime during the month of October.”

During a press conference on Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) reacted to the Centers for Disease Control telling states to be ready to distribute a coronavirus vaccine by November by remarking, “How convenient. It’s going to be an

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that by November or December, there could be a “safe and effective vaccine” for coronavirus.

Iran’s outgoing President Hassan Rouhani ordered the nation’s Health Ministry to begin plans to buy Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidates from other countries this weekend, raising questions about the progress Iran has made on its alleged indigenous attempt at a vaccine.

CLAIM: At the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday evening, Dr. G.E. Ghali said President Donald Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” is helping accelerate the process of approving a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus.

“The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics,” Trump wrote on Twitter, specifically calling out FDA administrator Dr. Stephen Hahn.