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Originally Posted by GGG
It’s funny you refuse to give Trump credit as if Biden could magically conjure the Vaccines from these companies if nothing had been done by January when he took over
Trump purchased 100 million Pfizer doses of the first run, then reupped to 200 million with 170 million by June 1st. Trump purchased 100 million Moderna as part of warp speed with the option to buy more.. He also purchased 100 million JJ.
In addition to those doses he signed the executive order prohibiting vaccine export effectively monopolizing every dose in the US which led to where the US is today. That executive order (which Biden continues to use) effectively made all contracting meaningless because they get all the doses regardless.
Trump had the executive order and contracts in place to supply sufficient vaccine to the US.
That isn’t debatable. You are likely thinking when trump chose not to procure more Pfizer after the first 100 million doses because they didn’t have a product approved yet. That turned out to not matter because of the executive order prohibiting export.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2...operation-war/
Not to mention contracts for Novavax and AZ that aren’t really being used.
Biden did the easy but important part, He got vaccines quickly into arms. He is just failing now at continuing to increase vaccination rate. Also even under the 2 months of Trump injection available supply vs daily injection rate was never terrible. |
Here's the problem with your argument. You're making it based on the total number of options on contracts they made, the vast majority of them for unavailable and not-yet approved vaccine product, rather than the actual orders they placed. Why should anyone get credit for something when the product is not in production or even completed trials? You only get credit for what you actually manage to have delivered. When Pfizer was approved and available they should have executed as many orders as they had options, which the Trump administration did not.
As someone who works in government I can tell you that the federal response under Trump was a joke. His administration dumped the responsibility onto the states and gave no clear guidance of who would get what vaccine in any shape or form. It was a complete cluster#### from the word go because there was no consistent guidance from the feds. Conversely, after it was turned into a health concern, and the experts who understand emergency response got involved, plans were quickly disseminated and things drastically improved.
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Originally Posted by sa226
Are there large amounts of people in the US that want the vaccine and can't get it?
Or are you suggesting that Biden is doing a crappy job of getting through to anti-vax and vaccine hesitant people?
I'm not really following the US closely at all, aside from hot takes like drive through vaccine centres and Deblasio creepily offering free fries if you get vaccinated.
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Yes, there are huge populations of people who are not getting vaccinated. Getting vaccinated has become a political issue because of the messaging from the Trump admin and the QAnon set (there's 5G trackers in the vaccine!).
The drive through vaccination sites are actually incredibly well run and efficient. No hot takes there as they just continue to work and get vaccine into people's arms. Frankly, the government needs to take all measures possible to get the vaccine in people. Unless we hit the herd immunity level, this effort is likely for naught and we'll see variants quickly develop that make this vaccine much less effective to almost useless. The good thing that is happening right now, employers are incentivizing their employees to get vaccinated, which will probably be most helpful.