Former United States Vice President, Joe Biden, on Friday, announced his plans to provide free vaccination against the coronavirus to allAmericans, if he wins the November 3 presidential elections, reported CNN.
¡°Once we have a safe and effective vaccine, it has to befree to everyone, whether or not you¡¯re insured,¡± the Democratic presidentialnominee said during a speech in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States.
Biden said that if elected, he would instruct the federalgovernment to ¡°bulk-purchase as many doses as necessary of the COVID-19vaccine¡± so that it can be provided for free to those who cannot afford it.
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Trump, who trails Biden in the polls, has also stressed thata vaccine - which he says will be ready in the coming weeks - should be free.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says COVID-19vaccine doses purchased with taxpayer dollars - through billions of dollars infunding approved by Congress - would be administered to the American people atno cost.
Trump, in his second and final debate with Biden, onThursday, tried to signal that the US was overcoming the pandemic.
"We're rounding the turn, we're rounding the corner,it's going away," Trump said.
But Democrats led by Biden have hammered Trump for failingto lay out and implement a nationwide response to a pandemic that has nowkilled more than 2,23,000 Americans.
"COVID-19 dwarfs anything that we've faced in recenthistory, and it isn't showing any signs of slowing down," Biden said in aspeech in Wilmington, Delaware, adding that the virus is "surging" inalmost every state.
"We're more than eight months into this crisis and thepresident still doesn't have a plan," 77-year-old Biden stressed.
"He's given up. He's quit on you. He's quit on yourfamily. He's quit on America."
Biden said that if elected he would "immediately"put in place a national strategy "to finally get ahead of this virus, andget back our lives."
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Biden said that Americans were ¡°learning to die¡± with COVID-19.¡°President Trump said we¡¯re rounding the corner, it¡¯s going away, we¡¯relearning to live with it,¡± he said, according to AFP. ¡°They are quotes. But asI told him last night, we¡¯re not learning to live with it. We¡¯re learning todie with it. This is a dark winter ahead.¡±
Trump also claimed that he was ¡°immune¡± because he hadrecovered from COVID-19. Studies have yet to establish whether being infectedwith COVID-19 leads to future immunity and how long it lasts.