Pic Of The Moment: Trump Wants "America First" On Vaccines, Except He Already Blew The Opportunity

[EarlG]

Trump to order government to vaccinate Americans first

Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered in late summer to sell the U.S. more vaccines

Vaccine Czar has no idea what Trump is doing with the executive order he's signing today

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[Botany]

1. Germany funded the development of Pfizer's COVID vaccine--not U.S.'s Operation Warp Speed

Trump doesn't get to tell Pfizer anything.
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Germany funded the development of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine—not U.S.’s Operation Warp Speed

It’s said that success has many authors, and the encouraging data from Pfizer Inc.’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine had plenty of people in Washington lining up to take credit.

Vice President Mike Pence was among Trump administration officials saying support from the government’s Operation Warp Speed program helped accelerate the development of the vaccine, which was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infections in an interim analysis.

The truth is that Pfizer didn’t receive any funding from Operation Warp Speed for the development, clinical trial and manufacturing of the vaccine. Rather, its partner, BioNTech SE, has received money -- from the German government.

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Berlin gave the German company $445 million in an agreement in September to help accelerate the vaccine by building out manufacturing and development capacity in its home market.

https://fortune.com/2020/11/09/pfizer-vaccine-funding-warp-speed-germany/

[ancianita]

4. Thank you for the background.

[Botany]

5. The other company that made a vaccine Moderna was not part of operation warp seed too

Trump and company lie about everything

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Hey Idiot in the Oval,

that train left the station way back in June.

[Fritz Walter]

3. Guess that makes today's WH meeting a ravine, not a summit

As if #DiaperDon’s staged Vaccine Summit was going to be anything but a self-congratulatory orgy.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/08/trump-vaccine-summit-pfizer-deal

[Ophelia57]

12. A chasm of stupidity

The collected imbecility of the #LameDuckLoser administration could fill the Mariana Trench, making sea levels rise even faster. Good riddance!

[Initech]

6. 43 more days until the worst president ever is no more!

Fuck you Trump!

[DENVERPOPS]

7. Americans should receive vaccines before any going to foreign nations

Of course, except for Russia........

[yuiyoshida]

8. This is what leadership looks like from the TRUMP administration

I bet he can't even tie his own shoes.. by the way, you never mentioned how Trump wants to brand this new vaccine the Trump vaccine. Even when he is wrong, he is still an asshole.

[tclambert]

11. I doubt he can reach his own shoes.

"C'mon, Mr. President, touch your toes! No, huh? Okay, how about your knees? Can you touch your knees?"

[Ophelia57]

13. All this talk about Trump touching himself is making me ill.

"I am the most flexible person you will ever meet, believe me. All I have to do is start walking down a ramp. Wait: I have knees?"

[Aussie105]

9. Classic Trump business practise!

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Let others do the work, then claim credit.
That's going to not work in this case. Smarter people in the room go 'No Donald, not this time.'
The various vaccine makers are probably more concerned with mass production while keeping quality control up, and distribution rather than catering to Trump's delusions.

I'm afraid we are all going to have to wait a lot longer to see the back of this virus. And in that I include both the Trump derangement virus, the GOP obsession with Trump virus, the 'out of touch' virus of his followers as well as COVID-19.

[Mr. Evil]

10. Ooooh! An executive order...

I'm sure Pfizer and Germany and all others actually involved in producing this vaccine will immediately snap to attention because Dipshit Donnie (soon to be ex-President Nazivomit) fucked up (again) and wants them to fix his fuck up so he can take credit for having an ample amount of vaccine for Americans. Yeah, Mr. Art of the Deal made sure other countries will get the vaccine before most of our citizens do. Just a colossal fucking moronic fuck up. Stupid Idiot!

January 20th cannot come soon enough!