Trump says coronavirus therapy drugs 'more important' than vaccine despite $1.6bn investment

[brooklynite]

Source: The Independentent

Donald Trump on Tuesday called therapeutic drugs to treat coronavirus "more important" than a vaccine just hours after his administration cut a $1.6bn deal to give taxpayer funds to a Maryland company that has never brought a product to market to develop 100m does of a vaccine.

Therapeutic medicines "get you better," he said after his administration struck its largest deal yet towards vaccine development, this time with an unproven company. He ignored the fact that a proven vaccine would make Americans immune from catching and spreading the disease.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-latest-coronavirus-vaccine-therapy-drugs-inoculate-a9606881.html

[TreasonousBastard]

1. STOP LISTENING TO THIS ASSHOLE! He has no business talking about medicine.

[turbinetree]

2. He always uses this deflection crap..............

of saying one thing circling around and doing another circle around, his modus operandi is BS................he has fucking blood on his hands.................end of story.................

[soothsayer]

3. He just said it (not for the first time) at the "reopen schools so parents can die for the Dow" meet

..ing

[Phoenix61]

4. You only make money once in a vaccine.

Drugs to treat it are a never ending cash flow.

[Mike 03]

6. Good point.

[LisaL]

12. Not necessarily true.

Flu vaccine is given every year. There are reasons to believe covid is not producing long lasting immunity, so vaccines might have to be given regularly as well.

[appalachiablue]

17. Right on the money. Chronically sick people are highly profitable.

[Mike 03]

5. Because he's only capable of thinking short-term.

He knows no vaccine will be available by November. So from his point of view, therapeutics are more important than the vaccine.

[underpants]

7. Hmmm in May a Richmond start-up got $354 M for Covid drugs

https://www.richmond.com/business/watch-now-richmond-startup-awarded-354-million-federal-contract-to-make-ingredients-for-covid-19/article_d6805428-8305-5c17-aa73-f28f0786b321.html

A new Richmond-based pharmaceutical manufacturing company has received a $354 million federal contract to help build a strategic, national reserve of essential medications and to make active ingredients for more than a dozen medicines used to treat patients with COVID-19.

[uppityperson]

8. Of course, it pays more to treat than prevent

[thesquanderer]

9. Treatment and vaccine are BOTH important. But Trump is kinda right.

There's no need to rank them as to which is MORE important, but even with a vaccine, some people will still get COVID. And a vaccine won't help those already infected, or those who may get infected between now and when a vaccine becomes available.

And if a treatment can be developed more quickly, that in itself is a huge benefit. I'd take a truly effective treatment NOW over a vaccine 6 months from now.

[SpankMe]

10. I agree with this but was afraid to say so earlier

A vaccine is likely a year or more away. The near term strategy to minimize deaths and suffering in the meanwhile is: Testing (as much as possible), contact tracing, distancing, hygiene and treatment.

Treatment was a mystery when this thing started - they didn't even discover until weeks into this that COVID patients shouldn't be lying on their backs. They've learned a ton since this think started and can knock down low hanging fruit that were unknown in the beginning.

Survival rates will go up as treatments are discovered. This is all we have until a vaccine comes out.

[patphil]

11. Since we don't have a vaccine right now, an EFFECTIVE therapy drug is more important, right now.

But, for the long term we really need a vaccine. Without a vaccine, the covid19 virus could be around for several more years.
It's not an either/or proposition.
Both are needed to get us through this pandemic.

[LisaL]

13. He already tried to sell us on hydroxychloroquine.

What other effective drug does he have in mind?

[patphil]

16. key phrase is "does he have in mind?".

I think that phrase disqualifies anything that he would say, since he is clearly out of his mind.

That's why I emphasized the word EFFECTIVE. It immediately leaves Trump out.

The guy's a dildo.

Definition of a dildo: A mindless f**ker.

[greenjar_01]

14. Somebody told this dipshit that there will be no vaccine before Fall 2021, I guess

[chriscan64]

15. Whatever the right thing to do or say is

somebody just tell him it will get him reelected.