Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.President Donald Trump’s name was not mentioned once yesterday during a webcast meeting where a who’s who in COVID-19 vaccine development debated what’s ahead in the next few weeks and months.Yet the shadow of the U.S.
president—recovering from COVID-19 at the White House and tweeting he was “FEELING GREAT!”—hovered over the 3-hour symposium, organized by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Washington.Trump has aggressively pushed for a COVID-19 vaccine to be rolled out before Election Day and many scientists and public health officials worry he will interfere with the approval process.