He wanted it to be ready quickly so that people could choose to use it if they want, and once it was available we would have no reason to continue holding up life for those who opt to simply go on living.

There were no illusions that the vaccine would be completely safe. Any crash deployment of an experimental product is going to have problems.

But the desire to have SOMETHING available was understandable and I don't think anyone faults Trump for that much.

He wanted it to be ready quickly so that people could choose to use it if they want, and once it was available we would have no reason to continue holding up life for those who opt to simply go on living.

There were no illusions that the vaccine would be completely safe. Any crash deployment of an experimental product is going to have problems.