re: GA Covid Thread - 2021

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So if we were still in the WHO the other parts of the world wouldn't be getting the vaccine and it would just be going to the us?

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They would be getting less and we would be getting more, yes. I’m not personally opining on this one way or another, but if you are “America first”, this is a bad outcome.

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So Operation Warp Speed had absolutely NOTHING to do with getting the vaccine out to US market in under 8 months? No red tape was cut or regulations waived ?

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Getting vaccine to market is not the same as development, which is what you claimed in your previous post. The development of vaccines is not a government endeavor, though pharmaceutical companies routinely collaborate with apolitical government agencies, such as the NIH. Moderna, for example, completed their vaccine in January, but then had to start its trial phase, which is not subject to government control or interference. There really wasn’t any red tape to be cut. The independent FDA advisory board that approved the emergency use authorizations is comprised by career officials and experts in the private sector. Trump couldn’t force them to approve the vaccine if they weren’t inclined to.

I will give the Trump administration some credit for the distribution so far. It has a baseline competence that has been lacking in almost every other area of his administration.