Operation Warp Speed officer urges public leaders to demonstrate vaccine confidence

The chief communications officer for Operation Warp Speed on Tuesday stress the importance of high-profile officials getting a COVID-19 vaccine to instill public confidence in the process and final product.

The spokesman, Michael Pratt, said the Trump administration's Warp Speed project has shaved years off the vaccination timeline, which will is helping save lives. However, the speed, finding a vaccine just nine months after the start of the pandemic, has also resulted in skepticism and lack of public confidence, Pratt said on the "Just the News AM" TV show. 

"It is important, obviously for us to have as part of our efforts to build confidence in the vaccine to have public leaders demonstrate their confidence in the process that delivered the vaccine and in the safety and efficacy of the vaccine," Pratt told host Carrie Sheffield. 

Pratt also expressed that Americans seeing leaders and other Americans getting a vaccine shot will increase public trust for the vaccine in the coming days and weeks.