Ledger · First term · № 148
A COVID-19 vaccine before Election Day
Late“[paraphrase] We'll have a vaccine before a very special date — I'm talking about November 3rd.”
- Promised
- , White House press conference, Labor Day
- Stated deadline
- “before November 3, 2020” → November 3, 2020
- Re-promised
- 10 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- COVID-19
- Era
- First term
What happened
No vaccine was authorized before the election. Pfizer announced interim efficacy results on November 9, 2020, six days after Election Day. The FDA granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 11, 2020 and to Moderna's on December 18, 2020.