Health experts from the private and public sectors have estimated that a vaccine for a new strain of disease would usually take up to 18 months of development, at least.

At a Fox News Virtual Town Hall, Trump affirmed his prediction that a vaccine will be available by the end of the year.

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci supported this practicality, saying that it was achievable for national laboratories to produce a vaccine that will be made accessible for all if "things fall in the right place."

Coronavirus in the United States

During the briefing, Trump clarified that his utmost priority at the moment was the pandemic, and so his impending impeachment and the November elections were not raised. The president was especially concerned about the effect the pandemic had on his family.

Last month, his estimates of the coronavirus deaths would be at 60,000. Trump's current forecast for this month has significantly swelled to 100,000 Americans in the worst-case scenario.

"I said a terrible thing has happened," Trump said, about having a talk with his son and grandchildren about the pandemic. He said without the intervention of the federal administration, the minimum death toll would have doubled. "Our country's going to be bigger, better, and stronger than ever before."

Trump attributed this mitigation strategy to his orders of closing down borders to China and other countries which were heavily impacted by COVID-19. Another factor that he said was temporarily shutting down the U.S. economy. Some states are now reopening businesses this month as quarantine measures loosen.

The president said that a lot of people wanted to go outside, acknowledging the protests all across the nation, which he called meaningfully. "We have to get [the economy to] open safely, but we have to get it open as quickly as possible."

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"China Made a Mistake"

At the rate that national healthcare systems and laboratories were going, Trump predicted that the United States would manufacture its own antibiotics within two years. This meant that the U.S. would no longer rely on the importation of supplies and equipment from other countries, such as China.

In the same press conference, Trump called out the World Health Organization for simply repackaging China's misleading claim about the coronavirus pandemic as a benign disease.

A report by Politico involving the Department of Homeland Security claimed that China delayed informing the WHO about the highly contagious nature of the coronavirus until it was too late.

In a series of tweets, Trump said that the WHO was China-centric despite the massive funds coming from the United States.

It was concluded in a research dossier by "Five Eyes" intelligence that China deliberately hid or destroyed any leads regarding the coronavirus outbreak. This was consistent with U.S. discoveries about the origins of the pandemic, which sources believed was a virus that escaped from a Wuhan laboratory.

Currently, there is an investigation ongoing into how China managed to suppress news about the coronavirus since its outbreak.