Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Biden does not trust Trump to deliver a safe vaccine

From Washington Examiner.com (Sept. 29):

Vice President Biden said that he would not trust President Trump to deliver a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine during a bitter debate rife with repeated, personal attacks.

“In terms of the whole notion of a vaccine, we’re for a vaccine, but we don’t trust him at all, nor do you,” Biden said, speaking on behalf of himself and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris. “What we trust is a scientist.”

Trump has touted his administration’s progress in developing a vaccine as part of its research initiative Operation Warp Speed, which has pushed four vaccine candidates to final clinical stages. Trump said that “we’re weeks away from a vaccine,” despite health officials in his own administration saying that the soonest the majority of the United States would be immunized would be spring 2021.

"I've spoken to the companies, and we can have it a lot sooner," Trump said about a COVID-19 vaccine. "I've spoken to Pfizer and spoken to all of the people that you have to speak to ... Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and others. They can go faster than that by a lot."

Biden argued that Trump has repeatedly undercut government health officials, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert.

Biden has said on the campaign trail that he would trust vaccine researchers far more than Trump’s word on different vaccine candidates’ development timelines. Trump seized upon Biden’s doubts, accusing the former vice president of having “anti-vaccine theories” in order to “discredit the vaccine now that they know we essentially have it.” [source]

Well, I guess that is his choice.

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