It just occurred to me who the President who did the most to fight Covid was.

[NNadir]

That would be Bill Clinton.

By pushing the human genome project and publicly funding it, he helped to improve the speed of genomic sequencing, and build a huge infrastructure around it.

Now we can sequence just about any living thing, from flies, to apes, to hippopotamuses to viruses.

It was public funding of science at its best.

If you get a vaccine, thank Bill.

[DanieRains]

1. What About His Emails

How a Republicans brain works....

[cinematicdiversions]

7. Wrong Clinton lol nt

[Schmice3]

16. Doesn't matter to those traitors.

[calimary]

17. Why, hello Andrea Mitchell! Didn't know you weighed in, here...

"... oh but her emails... "

[TNNurse]

2. Great point, thanks for sharing.

[niyad]

3. Thank you for the reminder.

[ananda]

4. Thank you, Bill.

!!!

[justhanginon]

5. Excellent post!

[KPN]

6. Great reminder!

[Hangdog Slim]

8. Right on

I was thinking that very thing this morning. All of these people refusing to vaccinate because of how quickly it was developed need to put a thought or two as to why that happened. You got it

[RussellCattle]

9. Absolutely right. His was a successful Presidency on a lot of counts, despite having a truly....

....malicious congress, led by Newt Gingrich, that faulted him at every turn.

[marieo1]

10. My Opinion

I loved Bill Clinton and thought he was a great president and it broke my heart that the reps went after him like a mad dog. He was brilliant and really tried to help everyone. A great man and President!! These scumbags today that run the republican party are a bunch of creeps that don't know the meaning of the word 'service' and no one seems to be able to do a thing about it!!

[JCMach1]

11. And, ironically, GWB for putting pandemic preparedness on the agenda

[Hamlette]

14. Indeed. W gets much credit. As much as it pains me to say it.

W read The Great Influenza by John Barry and it freaked him out.

Read The Premonition by Michael Lewis. It is fascinating. It's about those who created the preparedness plan.

[Blue_true]

18. Yes, he was surprisingly visionary on that account.

Under him, the research that led to today’s Covid vaccines got started.

[LymphocyteLover]

12. He also doubled NIH funding, which was HUGE for our biomedical research enterprise

including virology and immunology research

[Wounded Bear]

13. Good point, but Obama set up the infrastructure to fight epidemics in his term...

Trump destroyed that, including the means for international cooperation and basic interaction that could have slowed the spread.

Dems plan for the future, Repubs react to the past.

[Hekate]

15. Good memory. Thanks for this. nt

[robbedvoter]

19. He also started the National reserve for medical emergencies

W, Obama built it up. Former Guy raided it, sold it to China sent ventilators to Russia.