{"id":17856,"date":"2020-05-04T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T04:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/trump-very-confident-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-2020-and-predicts-up-to-100000-us-deaths"},"modified":"2020-05-04T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T04:58:07","slug":"trump-very-confident-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-2020-and-predicts-up-to-100000-us-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17856","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;very confident&#8217; of Covid-19 vaccine in 2020 and predicts up to 100,000 US deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president again criticises Beijing as European countries prepare to ease lockdown<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has said he is \u201cvery confident\u201d there will be a vaccine for coronavirus by the end of the year, revising up his estimate of the final US death toll as several European countries prepare for a cautious easing of lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The president used a Fox News \u201cvirtual town hall\u201d on Sunday night to repeat his regular virus talking points, including that a vaccine was not far away, Covid-19 was China\u2019s fault and the economy would not only recover but \u201cgrow like crazy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/trump-very-confident-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-2020-and-predicts-up-to-100000-us-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president again criticises Beijing as European countries prepare to ease lockdownCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDonald Trump has said he is \u201cvery confident\u201d there will be a vaccine for coronavirus by the end of the year,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[531,50,1069,415,221,526,472,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-france","category-mike-pompeo","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17857,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856\/revisions\/17857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}