LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump said that a potential coronavirus vaccine could be widely distributed by the end of 2020, contradicting congressional testimony earlier Wednesday from the director of the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying that Dr. Robert Redfield was “confused.”Redfield, the director of the CDC, told a Senate panel Wednesday morning that a COVID-19 vaccine may not be broadly available to the general public until the summer of 2021.RELATED: COVID-19 clinical trials seeking diverse enrollmentRedfield said any vaccine available in November or December would be in “very limited supply,” and reserved for first responders and people most vulnerable to COVID-19.