John J. Kim/baiduhaiCaring cities across the nation are finding ways to let health care professionals know that their hard work is appreciated and supported. The people of Chicago are leaving inspirational messages on sidewalks for first responders.
Brad Horrigan/Hartford CourantHartford Hospital health care professionals in Connecticut wave American flags to the fire and police departments that came out to celebrate and support them as they fight the coronavirus battle.
Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty ImagesThank-you notes and signs are posted in the People's Garden on West 111th Street in New York.
Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty ImagesMiami residents applaud and make noise from their balconies as a way to show solidarity for health care workers, first responders, supermarket employees and other professions helping to fight COVID-19 in the city.
Sam Costanza/New York Daily NewsIn an effort to boost happiness for health care workers, dozens of firefighters applauded and saluted NYU Langone health care workers for their service during the coronavirus pandemic.
Cindy Ord/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty ImagesA message reading "Thank You All Hospital Workers" is chalked on a New York City sidewalk during the coronavirus pandemic. Many states are using a lot of manpower and health care resources to slow down the spread of the virus.
Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily NewsNeighborhood residents cheer from their balconies for health care workers outside of NYU Medical Center in Manhattan.
Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily NewsNeighborhood residents applaud and show their support for health care workers outside of Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
Carline Jean/South Florida Sun SentinelA sign was placed at the entrance of Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation, Florida, to show appreciation and encouragement to all health care workers fighting this battle against coronavirus.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesSome Americans have moved their work home and are practicing social distancing, but that isn't something medical professionals have the luxury of doing. People in Miami hang signs from the balcony of their apartment building in support of health care professionals.
Scott Olson/Getty Images North America/TNSIn this file photo, President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Southern Illinois Airport in Murphysboro, Illinois. The June 20, 2020 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is shaping up as a nightmare scenario for public health officials.
Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty ImagesWorkers at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, display a thank-you card after businessman Michael "BigMike" Straumietis donated masks to the hospital.
Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily NewsHealth care workers embrace each other outside of Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after neighborhood residents applaud them in a small act of kindness people can perform during the coronavirus pandemic.
Brad Horrigan/Hartford CourantBusy health care workers and professionals take a moment to watch as the city's fire and police departments drive through the hospital's horseshoe with lights flashing and sirens roaring in an act of appreciation.
Maddie Meyer/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesA sign in Boston's Kenmore Square in front of the iconic Citgo landmark thanks health care workers while the city remains on a stay-at-home order.
Brad Horrigan/Hartford CourantK&J Tree Service brought a roughly 12-by-20-foot sign to thank health care workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, where many health care workers have been making sacrifices including keeping a safe distance away from family and friends during this pandemic.
Elaine Cromie/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesA sign is put up in Royal Oak, Michigan, to support Beaumont Hospital health care workers, where there are reportedly nearly 1,500 employees that have coronavirus symptoms, including 500 nurses.
Maddie Meyer/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesA message thanking essential personnel fighting the coronavirus is on display in Boston.
Cindy Ord/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty ImagesA family steps out onto the balcony to join other neighbors in showing gratitude for medical and essential workers as part of the nightly #ClapBecauseWeCare in New York City during the coronavirus pandemic.
Mark Wilson/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesThe people of Owings, Maryland, thought of a creative way to thank health care workers while in quarantine.
Carline Jean/South Florida Sun SentinelA sign in front of University Hospital and Medical Center in Tamarac, Florida, offers support for health care professionals taking care of the sick and putting others before themselves during the battle against coronavirus.
Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty ImagesOutside of Mount Sinai West medical center is a sidewalk full of considerate compliments and thank-you messages from the neighborhood residents in New York.
Gregory Shamus/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesA sign on the marquee of the Fox Theater posts encouraging messages thanking health care professionals and first responders in Detroit.
Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily NewsNeighborhood residents display their gratitude for health care workers as they hold up signs and cheer outside of NYU Medical Center in Manhattan.
Mark Mirko/Hartford CourantHilton hotel windows in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, are lit up red in the shape of a heart as a message of support for health care workers, who are tirelessly working long and intense hours under extreme conditions.
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesA thank-you sign can be seen outside of Queens' Elmhurst Hospital, an epicenter in the coronavirus battle.
Brad Horrigan/Hartford CourantHartford Hospital health care professionals watch as the fire and police departments drive around the horseshoe at the hospital's entrance to show their appreciation.
Matt Button/The Aegis/Baltimore Sun MediaOutside the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, Maryland, signs spell out a supportive message to health care professionals working hard at the hospital.
John J. Kim/baiduhai
1 of 28
Caring cities across the nation are finding ways to let health care professionals know that their hard work is appreciated and supported. The people of Chicago are leaving inspirational messages on sidewalks for first responders.
ExpandGetting your Trinity Audio player ready...
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic will “fade away” even without a vaccine, but researchers are close to developing one anyhow, President Donald Trump said.
“We’re very close to a vaccine and we’re very close to therapeutics, really good therapeutics,” Trump said Wednesday night in a television interview with Fox News. “But even without that, I don’t even like to talk about that, because it’s fading away, it’s going to fade away, but having a vaccine would be really nice and that’s going to happen.”
Trump’s comments come as the U.S. continues to see 20,000 new daily cases from a virus that has killed 117,000 people in the U.S. so far.
Anthony Fauci, the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said a vaccine could be ready by the end of the year or the first few months of 2021.
More Top Picks Best Winter Boots For Snow And Ice
(c)2020 Bloomberg News
Visit Bloomberg News at www.bloomberg.com
Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.