当地时间周六下午，美国总统特朗普“如期而至”。 这是他在确诊新冠肺炎出院后首次出席公开活动，他不仅在白宫会见了支持者，更摘下口罩，在阳台发表了长达17分钟的演讲。 此时，距离大选仅剩三周。面对数百名支持者的欢呼，特朗普再度重申了将推动疫苗及早分发的想法，表示新冠疫苗将在“创纪录的时间内”上市。他宣称当前正在生产的新冠治疗药物有明显疗效，“我们正在治愈患者，我们将会康复”。 但他的此番言论却遭到了不少专家们的反对。 此前曾因反对特朗普推荐的抗疫”神药”而惨遭撤职的美国国家卫生研究院官员布莱特在接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时,对特朗普急于在大选前分发疫苗的做法表示不满,认为此举是 “将政治和任人唯亲置于科学之前”，极不负责。 他表示，特朗普既不是科学家，也非医生，将疫苗上市这样攸关公众生命安全的事情与选举挂钩，是非常不负责任的行为，抗击新冠病毒应该交由科学家进行专业判断。 布莱特同时强调，科学家和研究人员正在全天候进行疫苗开发工作，但评估疫苗的安全性不能急于求成。 对于特朗普出院后呼吁公众“不要恐惧病毒”的说法，布莱特直指这种传递乐观信息、隐瞒公众疫情真相的行为十分 “致命”。 他认为特朗普隐瞒了新冠疫情的危险性，甚至在感染病毒后仍“持续不断地欺骗美国民众，不向他们陈述真实情况”，会让更多人因忽视疫情风险而死亡。 Though the U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the country could get COVID-19 vaccines ready by election day, experts have disagreed and criticized his comments. Rick Bright, who was ousted from his position as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for raising concerns over the coronavirus to the White House, called Trump's promises "irresponsible and reckless" in an interview with CNN on Thursday. "It's irresponsible and reckless for the President of the United States to drive the evaluation of something as critical as a vaccine to meet an election timeline," reported CNN citing Bright, as Trump "is not a scientist … not a doctor." "Let the scientists do their job," Bright added. He said scientists and researchers have worked around the clock for the vaccine development work, however the safety evaluation of the vaccine is the "one step you cannot rush." Bright, who also resigned his post at the National Institutes of Health recently, pointed out the president's message saying not be afraid of the virus after he left the hospital was "deadly." He said Trump "has never told us the truth about the risk or the seriousness of this outbreak. He has not told the truth about his status, when he was infected … By lying to the American public and not telling us the full truth, you're actually prolonging the duration and impact of this pandemic. You're actually allowing more people to die," as CNN reported. 即使是一直与特朗普站在同一战线的白宫首席顾问斯劳依，近日也给特朗普“泼了冷水”。他在接受美国全国公共广播电台的采访时承认，10月底开始提供冠病疫苗接种的可能性微乎其微。 美国卫生与公众服务部防备和应对事务助理部长罗伯特•卡德尔茨也表示，安全有效的疫苗生产正在加快推进，但分发还需要一个过程，预计交货时间从2021年1月开始。 针对何时能够实现全民接种疫苗的问题，美国卫生与公众服务部部长阿扎尔周四回应称，最早到2021年3月份能够为每个美国民众提供足够的新冠肺炎疫苗剂量。 According to The Associated Press, in an email on Friday, Robert Kadlec, assistant secretary for Preparedness and Response at HHS, said the administration "is accelerating production of safe and effective vaccines ... to ensure delivery starting January 2021," which countered the president's optimistic timeline. And HHS said a vaccine could be approved before the end of the year but will take time to distribute. HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that there could be 100 million vaccine doses available by the end of the year "pending FDA authorizations." And Dr. Moncef Slaoui, who is leading the government's vaccine effort, told Marketwatch on Friday that researchers could know "by late October, or November, or in December" whether one of the vaccines in development is effective, but that it would then take weeks to get emergency authorization to administer it.