With reporters spread out across the lawn, exactly six feet apart, Trump took the podium as his coronavirus task force filled in behind him. Some with masks, some without. 

Rumored to be coming to an end only last week, the task force will now continue "indefinitely," according to the President. It has been expanded by five new members: Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Labor Secretary Gene Scalia, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins (Tony Fauci's supervisor,) Food and Drug Administration Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Dr. Peter Marks and Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, Thomas Engels.

During his initial campaign, Trump's statements questioning vaccine safety kept both the medical industry and media off balance. Shortly before his inauguration, a one-off meeting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. where he reportedly asked Kennedy to chair an independent vaccine safety advisory panel fizzled. 

Since that brush with the topic, the President has uncharacteristically guarded his language from using the word 'vaccine' in public. Since Trump reached the White House, budget constraints and one-off Trump Tweets were the only real threats to America's long-embedded vaccine paradigm.