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KT2000

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8. Not just luck

Reply to Bleacher Creature (Original post)

Sat Jan 1, 2022, 03:32 PM

Jan 2022

As Rep Foster points out in his page - it was forward thinking President Obama who saw the need for development.

Foster said, “Heeding the advice of his scientific panel, in 2013 the Obama Administration invested $25 million through DARPA for research into the mRNA platform for pandemic response. This was followed by a $125 million investment by BARDA in 2015, so that by the end of the Obama administration, mRNA vaccines and therapeutics were being tested in both animals and humans.

https://foster.house.gov/media/press-releases/foster-highlights-president-obama-s-contribution-to-rapid-vaccine-development

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I wish more people could recognize how lucky we got with the mRNA vaccines. [View all] Bleacher Creature Dec 2021 OP

Thanks. Obama! CanyaDigIt Dec 2021 #1

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Thanks, Obama. brer cat Dec 2021 #4

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A study just out of SA Raftergirl Dec 2021 #5

figures TFG would try to take all the credit RussBLib Dec 2021 #6

Most people have just about zero understanding of how science PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2021 #7

Not just luck KT2000 Jan 2022 #8