To each his own.
Good job they were masked.
Like the bank robbers they are.
A competent leader sets an example ...
You know, unlike The Former Guy who gasped and wheezed after mounting 50 or so steps
His warp speed vaccine program saved this country and the world. You should be thanking him.
Trumpy Bear had nothing to do with Pfizer.
And he sucked at messaging, purchasing and distribution.
D minus grade overall.
Another claim completely divorced from reality, just like the elderly man held hostage by the radical Left that some call "president".
KHN & POLITIFACT HEALTHCHECKBiden’s Criticism of Trump Team’s Vaccine Contracts Is a Stretch
By
Victoria KnightMARCH 8, 2021
“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America. We rectified that.”
— President Joe Biden,
March 2 news conference
During a
March 2 news conference on the covid-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden claimed that former President Donald Trump’s administration did not ensure there would be enough vaccines for the American public.
“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America,” said Biden. “We rectified that.”
This story was produced in partnership with
PolitiFact. It can be
republished for free.
Biden then announced he was using the Defense Production Act to facilitate a partnership between two competing drug companies: Merck had agreed to help manufacture the recently authorized Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The move, he said, would accelerate the timeline for the availability of vaccines: “We’re now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May,” he said, two months earlier than he had previously projected.
It’s been a common political message since the Biden administration took office that the initial vaccine rollout under Trump was “chaotic.” PolitiFact previously rated a claim by Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, that the Trump administration left no vaccine plan behind as
Mostly False.
So, we thought it was important to check whether Biden was going too far in alleging that the Trump administration hadn’t contracted for enough vaccines to cover the American public. Let’s see what the contracts, which are public documents, say.
The Operation Warp Speed Contracts and FDA’s Process
As part of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration entered into contracts with multiple drugmakers. The contracts were generally signed while potential vaccines were still in clinical trials.
Experts told us this was smart because the Trump administration didn’t know which vaccines from which drugmakers would work, how effective they would be or how quickly they could be produced.
“That was the whole approach of Operation Warp Speed,” said
Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “Not knowing which one would cross the finish line, the Trump administration took a portfolio approach and invested in multiple vaccines.”
Here’s what the Trump team’s contracts called for drugmakers to supply to the U.S. government:
www.axios.com
