Former US President Donald Trump recently said that if the COVID-19 vaccine had not been developed during his administration, 100m people in the US might have died of the virus.

"I think 100 million people could have died if we hadn't developed a vaccine during the Trump administration, just like in 1917," he said in an interview on Saturday night local time. "

The reality is that during the Trump administration, US officials estimated that about 400000 people died of COVID-19. After Trump lost the election last November,Pfizer IncAnd Mordena just made public the news of the successful development of COVID-19 vaccine. By the time Trump stepped down on January 20, he had delivered 16.5 million doses of vaccine during his administration, an average of 900000 doses a day, far short of Trump's target of delivering 20 million doses by the end of 2020.

After taking office, current President Joe Biden said the figures were "frustrating failures."

Trump discussed the opening of the school in this interview. The former president said further postponement of children's education in the name of the epidemic would leave "scars" on those affected.