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"If and when the vaccine comes, it’s not likely to go through all the tests that need to be done, and the trials that are needed to be done."
Aug. 6, 2020
"Look at what’s happened. Enormous pressure put on the CDC not to put out the detailed guidelines. The enormous pressure being put on the FDA to say they’re going, that the following protocol will in fact reduce, it will have a giant impact on COVID. All these things turn out not to be true, and when a president continues to mislead and lie,
when we finally do, God willing, get a vaccine, who’s going to take the shot? Who’s going to take the shot? You going to be the first one to say, ‘Put me — sign me up, they now say it’s OK’? I’m not being facetious."
Sept. 2, 2020
News 6 Anchor Ginger Gadsden had the chance to interview former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
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"How are you going to distribute the vaccine when it arrives, when it arrives, when it’s there?
And the question of whether it’s real, when it’s there, that requires enormous transparency. You’ve got to make all of it available to other experts across the nation, so they can look and see, so there’s consensus this is a safe vaccine. Because already you have, what percent is American people saying if the vaccine were there tomorrow, they wouldn’t take it? And it’s not the usual anti-vaccine crowd. It’s beyond that because people are losing faith in what the president says. Think about it."
July 28, 2020
Biden questions whether coronavirus vaccine will be 'real,' despite experts' assurances
"Charting a clear path of science-based vaccines, free from politics. I get asked the question: ‘
If the president announced tomorrow we have a vaccine, would you take it?’ Only if it was completely transparent, that other experts in the country could look at it, only if we knew all of what went into it. Because so far, nothing he’s told us has been true."
Sept. 7, 2020
"Americans have had to endure President Trump’s incompetence and dishonesty, when it comes to testing and personal protective equipment. We can’t afford to repeat those fiascos when it comes to a vaccine. … Let me be clear: I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don’t trust Donald Trump, and at this moment, the American people can’t either. Last week, Senator Harris and I laid out three questions this administration’s going to have to answer to assure the American people that politics will not play a role whatsoever in the vaccine process.
If Donald Trump can’t give answers and the administration can’t give answers to these three questions, the American people should not have confidence."
following week
“If public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it, absolutely,” she said. “But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I’m not taking it.”
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The governor announced the creation of a new group of physicians and scientists working with the California Department of Public Health that will “independently review” all federal Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccines, he said.
“Of course, we don’t take anyone’s word for it,” Newsom said at a news conference on Monday. “We will do our own independently reviewed process with our world-class experts that just happen to live here in the state of California.”
Gov. Newsom added to concerns about COVID-19 vaccines and said the state will review the safety of any vaccine approved by the Trump administration.
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Saying he does not trust the federal government, Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York state will conduct its own review of any COVID-19 vaccines that are deemed to be ready for use.
“Frankly, I’m not going to trust the federal government’s opinion,” Cuomo said Thursday. “And I wouldn’t recommend to New Yorkers based on the federal government’s opinion.”
Saying he does not trust the federal government, Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York state will conduct its own review of any COVID-19 vaccines that are…
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