I’m aware. Don’t think it took anything special to say yes to funding requests for a cure during a pandemic. Other countries did the same thing and we have about a dozen vaccines hitting the market. Don’t stroke Trump too much for something that medical companies worldwide did
Operation Warp Speed continues to buy up COVID-19 vaccines in advance.
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Government promises that the vaccine, which still needs FDA approval, will be free to patients.
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Trump is trying to make sure Americans are taken care of first.
What the U.S. did, meanwhile, was commit to buying hundreds of millions of vaccines in advance to ensure Americans were
among the first in line if it clinches an emergency-use authorization or approval from the FDA. The Trump administration agreed in July to pay almost $2 billion for 100 million doses, with an option to acquire as many as 500 million more, once that clearance comes.
As part of that agreement, the U.S. gets to decide who gets the vaccine first, and will work with the company on logistical support. While most vaccine front-runners that have been tapped by Warp Speed will distribute their doses through a government partnership with
McKesson Corp., Pfizer is handling its own delivery of its products. The company has designed reusable containers that can keep the doses at ultracold temperatures, and is organizing trucks and flights to move them.
Operation Warp Speed is credited with speeding along several other vaccine programs, including one from Moderna Inc.that uses similar technology to Pfizer’s and could produce trial data later this month. The Trump administration’s rapid-vaccine operation, led by the Health and Human Services Department, the Defense Department, and other agencies, could well prove to be the reason many Americans get a vaccine in 2021, even if it’s not made by Pfizer.
The Trump administration nevertheless is taking credit for the breakthrough.
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