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LOL! Sore loser! Too bad the United States happens to like Biden. LOL!
Color me "Orange", LOL
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/541032-bidens-approval-tops-60-percent-in-new-poll
Biden's approval tops 60 percent in new poll
BY MAX GREENWOOD - 03/01/21 02:24 PM EST
this man is too decent, pure, ethical for our cause. We will not allow the Pandemic to end. How dare he try to help mankind. Disgusting.
U are delusional...
LOL! Sore loser! Too bad the United States happens to like Biden. LOL!
Color me "Orange", LOL
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/541032-bidens-approval-tops-60-percent-in-new-poll
Biden's approval tops 60 percent in new poll
BY MAX GREENWOOD - 03/01/21 02:24 PM EST
wah lau so high what, better than REPUBLICUNT, very hated now
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We are not having much success infiltrating China unfortunately. Every time we gain a foothold there, the local authorities threaten our members and make it very difficult to kill people. Spoilsports.
Thank you president Trump,,,and if not for you,,Biden would not have a vaccine to use
Tags: trump | vaccine | covid | biden coronavirus
Trump: 'Hope Everyone Remembers' Me When Getting COVID Shot
Former President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 28 in Orlando, Fla. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:30 AM
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As the nation marked one year since COVID-19 officially was declared a pandemic, former President Donald Trump said he hopes everyone “remembers” where the vaccines fighting the virus came from.
"I hope everyone remembers when they're getting the COVID-19 [often referred to as the China Virus] Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful 'shot' for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn't be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers!" Trump said in his single-sentence statement bearing the "Office of the Former President" logo.
Trump's statement Wednesday came hours after President Joe Biden announced his administration planned to order another 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine to further push the nation's efforts to get shots into Americans' arms.
Trump, meanwhile, set into action the production, testing, and approval for vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, and emergency use approval through the massive Operation Warp Speed initiative.
The New York Times pointed out Thursday that a close look at the vaccine ramp up offers a mixed picture of the successes Biden is touting through statements such as one he made Wednesday, when he said during a White House appearance that last weekend, "we hit a record of 2.9 vaccinations in one day in America," a figure that has since been disputed.
"The new administration expanded and bulked up a vaccine production effort whose key elements were in place when Mr. Biden took over for President Donald J. Trump," the New York Times pointed out.
Former Trump aides have accused Biden of using Trump's achievements to proclaim history while using the previous administration's playbook.
Trump's announcement was released after Biden met with chief executives from Johnson & Johnson, and Merck & Co., after the rivaling companies agreed to join forces to produce the vaccine.
"You know what’s clear is this is a historic, nearly unprecedented, collaboration, ” said Biden, also commenting that 60% of people 65 and older have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, up from 8% of Americans seven weeks ago.
"During World War II, one of the country’s slogans was 'We are all in this together' ... we’re seeing the same type of collaboration when it comes to getting this virus under control."
Biden also commented he has not hesitated to use his power under the Defense Production Act to expedite critical materials in vaccine production and as a result, "we're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every American adult by the end of May, months earlier than anyone expected."
The White House has also come under fire after Press Secretary Jen Psaki last week refused to give Trump and his administration credit for expediting the vaccine development, and commented that she didn't "think anyone deserves credit when half a million people in the country have died from this pandemic."
Tags: trump | vaccine | covid | biden coronavirus
Trump: 'Hope Everyone Remembers' Me When Getting COVID Shot
Former President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 28 in Orlando, Fla. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:30 AM
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Print|
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As the nation marked one year since COVID-19 officially was declared a pandemic, former President Donald Trump said he hopes everyone “remembers” where the vaccines fighting the virus came from.
"I hope everyone remembers when they're getting the COVID-19 [often referred to as the China Virus] Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful 'shot' for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn't be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers!" Trump said in his single-sentence statement bearing the "Office of the Former President" logo.
Trump's statement Wednesday came hours after President Joe Biden announced his administration planned to order another 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine to further push the nation's efforts to get shots into Americans' arms.
Trump, meanwhile, set into action the production, testing, and approval for vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, and emergency use approval through the massive Operation Warp Speed initiative.
The New York Times pointed out Thursday that a close look at the vaccine ramp up offers a mixed picture of the successes Biden is touting through statements such as one he made Wednesday, when he said during a White House appearance that last weekend, "we hit a record of 2.9 vaccinations in one day in America," a figure that has since been disputed.
"The new administration expanded and bulked up a vaccine production effort whose key elements were in place when Mr. Biden took over for President Donald J. Trump," the New York Times pointed out.
Former Trump aides have accused Biden of using Trump's achievements to proclaim history while using the previous administration's playbook.
Trump's announcement was released after Biden met with chief executives from Johnson & Johnson, and Merck & Co., after the rivaling companies agreed to join forces to produce the vaccine.
"You know what’s clear is this is a historic, nearly unprecedented, collaboration, ” said Biden, also commenting that 60% of people 65 and older have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, up from 8% of Americans seven weeks ago.
"During World War II, one of the country’s slogans was 'We are all in this together' ... we’re seeing the same type of collaboration when it comes to getting this virus under control."
Biden also commented he has not hesitated to use his power under the Defense Production Act to expedite critical materials in vaccine production and as a result, "we're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every American adult by the end of May, months earlier than anyone expected."
The White House has also come under fire after Press Secretary Jen Psaki last week refused to give Trump and his administration credit for expediting the vaccine development, and commented that she didn't "think anyone deserves credit when half a million people in the country have died from this pandemic."
Thank you president Trump,,,and if not for you,,Biden would not have a vaccine to use
Tags: trump | vaccine | covid | biden coronavirus
Trump: 'Hope Everyone Remembers' Me When Getting COVID Shot
Former President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 28 in Orlando, Fla. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:30 AM
Comment|
Print|
A A
As the nation marked one year since COVID-19 officially was declared a pandemic, former President Donald Trump said he hopes everyone “remembers” where the vaccines fighting the virus came from.
"I hope everyone remembers when they're getting the COVID-19 [often referred to as the China Virus] Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful 'shot' for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn't be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers!" Trump said in his single-sentence statement bearing the "Office of the Former President" logo.
Trump's statement Wednesday came hours after President Joe Biden announced his administration planned to order another 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine to further push the nation's efforts to get shots into Americans' arms.
Trump, meanwhile, set into action the production, testing, and approval for vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, and emergency use approval through the massive Operation Warp Speed initiative.
The New York Times pointed out Thursday that a close look at the vaccine ramp up offers a mixed picture of the successes Biden is touting through statements such as one he made Wednesday, when he said during a White House appearance that last weekend, "we hit a record of 2.9 vaccinations in one day in America," a figure that has since been disputed.
"The new administration expanded and bulked up a vaccine production effort whose key elements were in place when Mr. Biden took over for President Donald J. Trump," the New York Times pointed out.
Former Trump aides have accused Biden of using Trump's achievements to proclaim history while using the previous administration's playbook.
Trump's announcement was released after Biden met with chief executives from Johnson & Johnson, and Merck & Co., after the rivaling companies agreed to join forces to produce the vaccine.
"You know what’s clear is this is a historic, nearly unprecedented, collaboration, ” said Biden, also commenting that 60% of people 65 and older have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, up from 8% of Americans seven weeks ago.
"During World War II, one of the country’s slogans was 'We are all in this together' ... we’re seeing the same type of collaboration when it comes to getting this virus under control."
Biden also commented he has not hesitated to use his power under the Defense Production Act to expedite critical materials in vaccine production and as a result, "we're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every American adult by the end of May, months earlier than anyone expected."
The White House has also come under fire after Press Secretary Jen Psaki last week refused to give Trump and his administration credit for expediting the vaccine development, and commented that she didn't "think anyone deserves credit when half a million people in the country have died from this pandemic."
Dude, he lost. Get over it. He was really crap as a President too. Oh and he turned Orange and went nuts. Why anyone wants to put Orange Makeup on goes to show what a dingbat he was.
Straits Times say Trump a cheater, so he jalan
LOL Sore loser, Fox Fake News Channel. Too bad the GOP lost the past 3 elections LOL!
tiongs no worry about election, just tell you who is leader no choice one.
Biden’s Criticism of Trump Team’s Vaccine Contracts Is a Stretch
During a March 2 news conference on the covid-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden claimed that former President Donald Trump’s administration did not ensure there would be enough vaccines for the American public.
“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America,” said Biden. “We rectified that.”
PolitiFact logo
Biden then announced he was using the Defense Production Act to facilitate a partnership between two competing drug companies: Merck had agreed to help manufacture the recently authorized Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The move, he said, would accelerate the timeline for the availability of vaccines: “We’re now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May,” he said, two months earlier than he had previously projected.
It’s been a common political message since the Biden administration took office that the initial vaccine rollout under Trump was “chaotic.” PolitiFact previously rated a claim by Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, that the Trump administration left no vaccine plan behind as Mostly False.
So, we thought it was important to check whether Biden was going too far in alleging that the Trump administration hadn’t contracted for enough vaccines to cover the American public. Let’s see what the contracts, which are public documents, say.
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The Operation Warp Speed Contracts and FDA’s Process
As part of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration entered into contracts with multiple drugmakers. The contracts were generally signed while potential vaccines were still in clinical trials.
Experts told us this was smart because the Trump administration didn’t know which vaccines from which drugmakers would work, how effective they would be or how quickly they could be produced.
“That was the whole approach of Operation Warp Speed,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “Not knowing which one would cross the finish line, the Trump administration took a portfolio approach and invested in multiple vaccines.”
Here’s what the Trump team’s contracts called for drugmakers to supply to the U.S. government:
Pfizer-BioNTech: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Moderna: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Johnson & Johnson: 100 million doses (one-dose regimen)
AstraZeneca: 300 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Novavax: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Sanofi-GlaxoSmithKline: 100 million doses (one- or two-dose regimen)
In all, the amounts agreed to under these contracts total about 800 million vaccine doses, or enough for more than 400 million people.
The U.S., based on U.S. Census estimates, has around 328 million people, of whom about 255 million are 18 or older. (Vaccines are not yet authorized for children.)
So, it appears that the Trump administration’s contracts with drugmakers did cover enough doses to vaccinate the entire U.S. adult population — and then some. By that measure, Biden’s statement is inaccurate.
An important point to remember, though, is that these contract numbers don’t necessarily represent deliverable vaccines. The contracts represent early promises. There were still important hurdles to be cleared before these possible vaccine candidates could be a reality.
Kevin Gilligan, a senior consultant with Biologics Consulting, a firm focused on pharmaceuticals, said that once drugmakers develop a vaccine they must test it through clinical trials with humans and amass enough data to show the vaccines are safe and effective and cause minimal side effects.
The data is then presented to the Food and Drug Administration, which decides whether the vaccine should be authorized for emergency use. Granting an emergency use authorization means the vaccine can then be distributed to the public.
Until recently, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were the only two that had reached that point, gaining authorization on Dec. 11 and 18 respectively.
The Trump administration announced Dec. 23 that it would buy an additional 200 million doses in total of both companies’ vaccines.
A Caveat Worth Noting: The Real Numbers Were Lower
A Biden administration press official told KHN that the president was referring only to orders for the authorized vaccines: “When the Trump administration was in office, there were only two approved vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) and the Trump administration had not contracted for enough of them to vaccinate all Americans. They only had 400 million doses of these authorized vaccines, which is only enough for 200 million Americans. Upon coming into office, one of our first steps was to ensure that we had enough supply secured for every American. We were prepared from Day One.”
On this point, the Biden White House is correct. The U.S. government had in place agreements to buy 400 million doses of the authorized vaccines, which were both two-dose vaccines — not enough for the entire U.S. adult population.
It’s also true that five days after Biden became president, he announced his administration had reached agreements with Moderna and Pfizer to buy a combined additional 200 million doses. That purchase was finalized on Feb. 11 and brought the total U.S. supply to 600 million, or enough to vaccinate 300 million people.
In addition, on Feb. 27, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine was authorized for emergency use. Under the Operation Warp Speed contract, J&J is supposed to provide 100 million doses to the U.S. by the end of May, but the company is reportedly behind on production. The Biden administration’s move to get J&J to team up with Merck to achieve its production goal will increase vaccine supply.
But, is it fair for Biden to blame the Trump administration for not buying more of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines once they became authorized for emergency use?
The answer to that isn’t clear-cut, said the experts.
“It’s not totally fair to say the prior administration didn’t purchase enough, since they did move to purchase more doses after the vaccine was authorized,” said Jennifer Kates, senior vice president and director of global health and HIV policy at KFF. “I think the question is should they have purchased it earlier?”
The New York Times reported on Dec. 7 that before Pfizer’s covid vaccine was shown to be highly effective in clinical trials, the company had offered the U.S. government the option to buy additional doses, but the Trump administration declined. Former Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar disputed the news report, saying during a TV interview that Pfizer hadn’t agreed to a production amount or delivery time for the additional vaccine, so he couldn’t agree to the deal: “I’m certainly not going to sign a deal with Pfizer giving them $10 billion to buy vaccine that they could deliver to us five, 10 years hence. That doesn’t make any sense.”
James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, a nongovernmental organization that obtained copies of covid government contracts, agreed that once it was clear the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were likely to receive FDA authorization, the Trump administration could have taken action to make competing drug companies increase their vaccine manufacturing capacity in the way Biden did with Merck and J&J.
“The U.S. could have forced technology transfer between companies, which meant they would have been assured of additional vaccine manufacturing capacity,” said Love. “The agreements we have now about scaling manufacturing are coming pretty late actually. It takes several months to get stuff up and running.”
But Gilligan noted that the Biden administration had the advantage of hindsight. “Biden inherited the success of vaccine development done under Trump and then expanded on it,” said Gilligan. “And the Biden administration has the benefit of looking back at what was done well and what wasn’t and making the appropriate corrective changes. Hindsight is 20/20.”
Overall, there are questions around whether the Trump administration could have acted more quickly to buy doses or increase vaccine manufacturing capacity. And the Biden administration has certainly taken significant measures to expand supplies.
But it’s stretching the truth to say the Trump administration hadn’t contracted for enough covid vaccines to inoculate the U.S. adult population.
Our Ruling
Biden said the Trump administration “had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America.”
While Trump was still in office, his administration had agreements in place to buy 400 million doses of authorized vaccine, or enough to inoculate about 200 million people. That wouldn’t cover the U.S. adult population.
However, KHN-PolitiFact reviewed the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed contracts and found those included enough vaccine doses that, once cleared for use by the FDA, would inoculate about 550 million people — more than double the U.S. adult population.
Biden’s statement contains an element of truth but ignores facts that would give a different impression.
We rate this claim Mostly False.
SOURCES:
Census Bureau, National Population by Characteristics: 2010-2019, accessed March 5, 2021
Department of Health and Human Services, Novavax contract, July 6, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, Pfizer contract, July 21, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, Sanofi contract, July 30, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, Janssen contract, Aug. 5, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, Moderna contract, Aug. 9, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, AstraZeneca Contract, Oct. 28, 2020
FactCheck.org, “Biden’s Misleading Vaccine Boasts,” Feb. 23, 2021
Knowledge Ecology International, Moderna contract, Dec. 11, 2020
Phone interview with James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, March 4, 2021
Phone interview with Kevin Gilligan, senior consultant with Biologics Consulting, March 4, 2021
Phone interview with Jennifer Kates, senior vice president and director of global health and HIV policy at KFF, March 4, 2021
Phone interview with Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, March 3, 2021
During a March 2 news conference on the covid-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden claimed that former President Donald Trump’s administration did not ensure there would be enough vaccines for the American public.
“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America,” said Biden. “We rectified that.”
PolitiFact logo
Biden then announced he was using the Defense Production Act to facilitate a partnership between two competing drug companies: Merck had agreed to help manufacture the recently authorized Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The move, he said, would accelerate the timeline for the availability of vaccines: “We’re now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May,” he said, two months earlier than he had previously projected.
It’s been a common political message since the Biden administration took office that the initial vaccine rollout under Trump was “chaotic.” PolitiFact previously rated a claim by Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, that the Trump administration left no vaccine plan behind as Mostly False.
So, we thought it was important to check whether Biden was going too far in alleging that the Trump administration hadn’t contracted for enough vaccines to cover the American public. Let’s see what the contracts, which are public documents, say.
Subscribe to KHN's free Weekly Edition newsletter.
Sign Up
The Operation Warp Speed Contracts and FDA’s Process
As part of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration entered into contracts with multiple drugmakers. The contracts were generally signed while potential vaccines were still in clinical trials.
Experts told us this was smart because the Trump administration didn’t know which vaccines from which drugmakers would work, how effective they would be or how quickly they could be produced.
“That was the whole approach of Operation Warp Speed,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “Not knowing which one would cross the finish line, the Trump administration took a portfolio approach and invested in multiple vaccines.”
Here’s what the Trump team’s contracts called for drugmakers to supply to the U.S. government:
Pfizer-BioNTech: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Moderna: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Johnson & Johnson: 100 million doses (one-dose regimen)
AstraZeneca: 300 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Novavax: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Sanofi-GlaxoSmithKline: 100 million doses (one- or two-dose regimen)
In all, the amounts agreed to under these contracts total about 800 million vaccine doses, or enough for more than 400 million people.
The U.S., based on U.S. Census estimates, has around 328 million people, of whom about 255 million are 18 or older. (Vaccines are not yet authorized for children.)
So, it appears that the Trump administration’s contracts with drugmakers did cover enough doses to vaccinate the entire U.S. adult population — and then some. By that measure, Biden’s statement is inaccurate.
An important point to remember, though, is that these contract numbers don’t necessarily represent deliverable vaccines. The contracts represent early promises. There were still important hurdles to be cleared before these possible vaccine candidates could be a reality.
Kevin Gilligan, a senior consultant with Biologics Consulting, a firm focused on pharmaceuticals, said that once drugmakers develop a vaccine they must test it through clinical trials with humans and amass enough data to show the vaccines are safe and effective and cause minimal side effects.
The data is then presented to the Food and Drug Administration, which decides whether the vaccine should be authorized for emergency use. Granting an emergency use authorization means the vaccine can then be distributed to the public.
Until recently, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were the only two that had reached that point, gaining authorization on Dec. 11 and 18 respectively.
The Trump administration announced Dec. 23 that it would buy an additional 200 million doses in total of both companies’ vaccines.
A Caveat Worth Noting: The Real Numbers Were Lower
A Biden administration press official told KHN that the president was referring only to orders for the authorized vaccines: “When the Trump administration was in office, there were only two approved vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) and the Trump administration had not contracted for enough of them to vaccinate all Americans. They only had 400 million doses of these authorized vaccines, which is only enough for 200 million Americans. Upon coming into office, one of our first steps was to ensure that we had enough supply secured for every American. We were prepared from Day One.”
On this point, the Biden White House is correct. The U.S. government had in place agreements to buy 400 million doses of the authorized vaccines, which were both two-dose vaccines — not enough for the entire U.S. adult population.
It’s also true that five days after Biden became president, he announced his administration had reached agreements with Moderna and Pfizer to buy a combined additional 200 million doses. That purchase was finalized on Feb. 11 and brought the total U.S. supply to 600 million, or enough to vaccinate 300 million people.
In addition, on Feb. 27, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine was authorized for emergency use. Under the Operation Warp Speed contract, J&J is supposed to provide 100 million doses to the U.S. by the end of May, but the company is reportedly behind on production. The Biden administration’s move to get J&J to team up with Merck to achieve its production goal will increase vaccine supply.
But, is it fair for Biden to blame the Trump administration for not buying more of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines once they became authorized for emergency use?
The answer to that isn’t clear-cut, said the experts.
“It’s not totally fair to say the prior administration didn’t purchase enough, since they did move to purchase more doses after the vaccine was authorized,” said Jennifer Kates, senior vice president and director of global health and HIV policy at KFF. “I think the question is should they have purchased it earlier?”
The New York Times reported on Dec. 7 that before Pfizer’s covid vaccine was shown to be highly effective in clinical trials, the company had offered the U.S. government the option to buy additional doses, but the Trump administration declined. Former Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar disputed the news report, saying during a TV interview that Pfizer hadn’t agreed to a production amount or delivery time for the additional vaccine, so he couldn’t agree to the deal: “I’m certainly not going to sign a deal with Pfizer giving them $10 billion to buy vaccine that they could deliver to us five, 10 years hence. That doesn’t make any sense.”
James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, a nongovernmental organization that obtained copies of covid government contracts, agreed that once it was clear the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were likely to receive FDA authorization, the Trump administration could have taken action to make competing drug companies increase their vaccine manufacturing capacity in the way Biden did with Merck and J&J.
“The U.S. could have forced technology transfer between companies, which meant they would have been assured of additional vaccine manufacturing capacity,” said Love. “The agreements we have now about scaling manufacturing are coming pretty late actually. It takes several months to get stuff up and running.”
But Gilligan noted that the Biden administration had the advantage of hindsight. “Biden inherited the success of vaccine development done under Trump and then expanded on it,” said Gilligan. “And the Biden administration has the benefit of looking back at what was done well and what wasn’t and making the appropriate corrective changes. Hindsight is 20/20.”
Overall, there are questions around whether the Trump administration could have acted more quickly to buy doses or increase vaccine manufacturing capacity. And the Biden administration has certainly taken significant measures to expand supplies.
But it’s stretching the truth to say the Trump administration hadn’t contracted for enough covid vaccines to inoculate the U.S. adult population.
Our Ruling
Biden said the Trump administration “had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America.”
While Trump was still in office, his administration had agreements in place to buy 400 million doses of authorized vaccine, or enough to inoculate about 200 million people. That wouldn’t cover the U.S. adult population.
However, KHN-PolitiFact reviewed the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed contracts and found those included enough vaccine doses that, once cleared for use by the FDA, would inoculate about 550 million people — more than double the U.S. adult population.
Biden’s statement contains an element of truth but ignores facts that would give a different impression.
We rate this claim Mostly False.
SOURCES:
Census Bureau, National Population by Characteristics: 2010-2019, accessed March 5, 2021
Department of Health and Human Services, Novavax contract, July 6, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, Pfizer contract, July 21, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, Sanofi contract, July 30, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, Janssen contract, Aug. 5, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, Moderna contract, Aug. 9, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services, AstraZeneca Contract, Oct. 28, 2020
FactCheck.org, “Biden’s Misleading Vaccine Boasts,” Feb. 23, 2021
Knowledge Ecology International, Moderna contract, Dec. 11, 2020
Phone interview with James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, March 4, 2021
Phone interview with Kevin Gilligan, senior consultant with Biologics Consulting, March 4, 2021
Phone interview with Jennifer Kates, senior vice president and director of global health and HIV policy at KFF, March 4, 2021
Phone interview with Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, March 3, 2021
This is not true. Our Messiah Trump will never resort to developing a vaccine to kill our virus. We asked the Chinese to release the virus and to kill as many people as possible.
As you can see, it was a major success.
Oh some more bad news for you, Q-ANON, Biden is fixing the economy much faster than the 2x impeached one term disgraced ex President LOL
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/bu...ins-379-000-jobs-february-first-full-n1259679
U.S. economy gains 379,000 jobs in February, in first full monthly employment report under Biden
Tiong say their economy is top priority to take over world dominance, if US can show strength, will threaten the tiong
Oh some more bad news for you, Q-ANON, Biden is fixing the economy much faster than the 2x impeached one term disgraced ex President LOL
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/bu...ins-379-000-jobs-february-first-full-n1259679
U.S. economy gains 379,000 jobs in February, in first full monthly employment report under Biden
how come the US can recover so fast ah? new prez so good?
he's not a fucktard moron like Trump
forgot to mention 1 played golf most of the time, and Biden has played gold 0 times. LOL !
He plays gold? We are unaware how someone plays gold. Kindly elaborate further.
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