Ex-President Donald Trump has taken credit for the
distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine in the US.
In a statement on Tuesday, Trump said he hopes Americans
remember that if it was not for him they would not be getting the “beautiful
shot for five years”.
“I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the Covid-19
(often referred to as the China Virus) vaccine, that if I wasn’t president, you
wouldn’t be getting that beautiful ‘shot’ for 5 years, at best, and probably
wouldn’t be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers,” he said.
this is the saddest thing i've ever read pic.twitter.com/kahJKNZAAW
— David Mack (@davidmackau) March 10, 2021
The US began its vaccination with the Pfizer vaccine on
December 14.
By January 10, the country, which is the worst-hit, had
recorded at least 22,255,827 infections and about 373,463 deaths.
The Trump administration was criticised for downplaying the
threat of the infection and its slow response at the beginning of the pandemic.
Trump’s government was also accused of slow adoption of
widespread testing, which critics said could have slowed down the spread of the
disease.
The US, among others, had blamed China for the coronavirus
pandemic, saying the country did not alert the rest of the world to the disease
in time and that it mismanaged the spread of the virus, but China repeatedly
denied these allegations.
As of January 20, about 16.5 million vaccines had been
administered in the US.
Upon assumption of office, President Joe Biden had
criticised the speed of the vaccine roll-out under Trump’s administration,
describing it as “a dismal failure thus far”.
Biden had said he wanted to see 100 million vaccinations
administered in his first 100 days in office and that his administration will
have enough vaccines for every adult American by the end of May.
According to data obtained from Centres for Disease Control
and Prevention, the number of daily vaccinations has soared past the 2 million
mark.
About 95.7 million people have also been vaccinated in the
country.
More than 29 million people in the US have been infected
with the virus according to worldometers.
A total of 542,191 patients have died from complications of
the disease while 20,640,270 people have recovered.
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