Donald Trump boasted that a Covid vaccine could have taken 10 years under a different administration instead of just nine months, in an extraordinary farewell speech.
As he addressed the nation on his last full day in office the controversial Republican said the US grieved for 'every life lost' because of the virus and said he pledged to 'wipe out this horrible pandemic.' Trump also once again described Covid-19 as the 'China virus' in his speech, despite previously being branded racist for using the phrase.
He said: "When our nation was hit with the terrible pandemic we produced not one but two vaccines with record-breaking speed and more will quickly follow. "They said it couldn't be done but we did it; they called it a medical miracle,