“It’s incredible what they can do, and I’ve seen results and the results are staggeringly good,” Trump said.
The stock market jumped 890 points after news of the Moderna vaccine was released on Monday morning. The company announced that its preliminary test of the vaccine was successful and would move into phase two of testing.
The president appeared delighted by the news, speaking to reporters after meeting with Sen. Tim Scott and other advisors about economic Opportunity Zones in urban communities.
“You’re seeing it maybe today for the first time where not only are the markets up tremendously, but we’ve had tremendous, tremendously good and positive information on therapeutics, on cures and on vaccines,” he said.