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edhopper

(37,235 posts) Fri Feb 12, 2021, 10:29 AM Feb 2021

There is a vaccine shortage because Operation Warp Speed [View all]

was a failure. This must be repeated and repeated.
The Trump Administration did nothing to ramp up vaccine manufacturing.
Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to produce many of the materials Pfizer and Moderna need to make more.
That is why we will see things get better in April. This should have been done last Summer.
The failure of the Trump Administration should never be understated.

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There is a vaccine shortage because Operation Warp Speed [View all] edhopper Feb 2021 OP

The real Operation Warp Speed that he worked on was January 6 dalton99a Feb 2021 #1

Yup. orangecrush Feb 2021 #2

Things are already trending better gratuitous Feb 2021 #3

It was intentional. 2naSalit Feb 2021 #5

I hesitate to say that that's the worst of it gratuitous Feb 2021 #7

Trump did as little as possible Johnny2X2X Feb 2021 #4

This is not true at all DeminPennswoods Feb 2021 #6

There are other materials neccessary edhopper Feb 2021 #8

Only Sort Of, DP ProfessorGAC Feb 2021 #9

Pfizer wasn't but Moderna was DeminPennswoods Feb 2021 #11

Moderna was a part of Warp Speed Massacure Feb 2021 #12

The lost 20 million too. Well 20 million disappeared. Don't know that they are lost. LizBeth Feb 2021 #10