How the US went from having one of the worst Covid responses to being a global leader in vaccination

How the US went from having one of the worst Covid responses to being a global leader in vaccinations under Biden

Washington (CNN)For the last 100 days, President Joe Biden and his top advisers have mounted an urgent, wartime effort to get millions of coronavirus vaccines into the arms of Americans in order to beat back a pandemic that has upended the world for the better part of year.

The effort, described to CNN during in-depth interviews with three of the administration's top Covid advisers and two other White House officials, has allowed the US to go from having one of the worst Covid responses in the world to being a global leader in getting shots in arms. The interviews reveal how the Biden team inherited a pandemic at its zenith with a high demand for vaccines and little supply, along with no long-term plan to vaccinate millions of Americans. The President, at times impatient, pressed his advisers harder on ways to improve the federal government's response to the virus.

Fully aware that success or failure in getting Americans vaccinated would make or break his presidency, Biden and his team set vaccination goals and jump started the federal response to meet them, deploying active-duty military and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help with vaccinations, establishing a federal pharmacy program and funding community health centers, all to increase vaccine access. And the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan helped fund the vaccination effort too. According to the White House, there are now 70,000 sites around the country where people can get vaccines.

... ctd: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/26/politics/biden-100-days-covid/index.html​

This is a big part of what Biden voters wanted, of course. A competent response to the pandemic!

 

Who knew that all we needed was an actual functioning government?!?

 

Trump would've done much the same. Actually, let me scale back a little: He would have tried to do the same but Democratic States would've been like "Meh rights" and not have a nationalized response. What Biden is doing, is the bare minimum. Because of the perception that the bare minimum wasn't met, people think he's doing a great job.

I find it hilarious.

 

Trump hid the fact he got the vaccine, not sure if he tried to record on video and he freaked out like a baby or what, but he never released a video

 

Yeap ole Joe got er developed and distributed in a day in office zoom call. Hilarious but who would have thought the lefties would claim this after months and months of press conferences laying out distribution and logistical plans by the pentagon and CDC. I almost spit my water out when I say in the article joe was tough and demanding on advisors to make it happen. I remember all the lefty chatter about trump being a bully and it was leading to vaccination that were dangerous and ineffective. I remember Joe and the idiot VP actually questioning if they would take the vaccine. You guys hypocritical about face is a reminder to all us that partisan politics are the only thing you care for and push on a daily basis.

 

So we covered up the Trump juice brand with a Biden label and people are lining up to for their injections.

 

Isn't it amazing how the turnaround coincided exactly with Biden being sworn in.

 

And yet the opposite actually happened. Trump undermined and undercut any strong moves to tackle the virus in Democrat States. Have you already forgotten?

 

Trump had no interest in getting the vaccine out. His plan was to let the states fend for themselves and stay out of it. Its the same approach he took to PPE equipment.

His only interest was in getting the vaccine created. Not because I think he honestly cares about the lives it saves, but so that he can point to it and say "ME ME ME ME ME! I DID THIS! LOOK AT HOW GREAT I AM!"

 

Yeah, it is funny. Joe doing the bare minimum has made America the leader in fighting COVID. Just think what we could have had if only he would have tried. HAHAHA!!!!!!!!

 

A lot of people aren't going to like to hear this, but the fact that the US is the part of the world with the highest pharmaceutical costs, and the fact that the US completely dominated other parts of the world in rolling out a response to the pandemic, is not a coincidence.

The US is a world leader in technology, and certainly not least in biotechnology and pharmaceutical research. The US pharmaceutical industry being flush in profits probably has something to do with this.
In other developed countries they try to drive down pharmaceutical costs, but that ultimately does end up meaning less for research and development.
(Theoretically government could just as easily handle all this research and development, but that hasn't really happened)

 

What hath the injections wrought???

‘You’re not in the clear with vaccines’: US lawmaker says she’s Covid-positive after 2 doses of Pfizer — RT USA News

 

If USA did nothing about this Corona/Covid scam, we would all be better off, except for the murderous drug companies pushing their Vax Krap.

 

Biden is just continuing what Trump started and lefties are attempting to give Biden credit for it, as if it were a "new idea", rather than giving Trump credit for it.

 

Biden and crew say they inherited a mess. I think you're just trying to give Trump credit for all the hard work Biden's team has done since taking over.

 

I say that Biden and crew are liars.

I'm just giving Trump credit for what Trump accomplished. Biden and crew are attempting to take credit for what Trump accomplished.

 

Well, you're wrong and stuff.

 

Well, yup, you got me..... /sarcasm

 

And now they're claiming that since people are skeptical about a vaccine that the left spent MONTHS, MONTHS trying to demonize in order to affect the election results that the US won't be able to reach herd immunity. If you think about this situation logically, the left basically tries to absolve itself from any blame for any negative situation whatsoever, instead pointing directly at Trump.

But it also contradicts them hailing Biden as a 'savior' because we hadn't been 'saved' yet. In other words, the Democrats are a very shitty salesman who undermines their own talking points. Except in the guys of those who already brought them. To use a favorite term: Democrats are con artists, just like Trump.

 

And yet, all around blue america, cities remain shut down, mask mandates are the rule of the day, Our doddering president contradicts the advice of the CDC, and this is what the left wanted? Really? So, y'all are tyrants. Good to know. Good thing Trump got vaccines for Biden to take credit for. Good thing red parts of the nation are getting their citizens protected. Cause it sure isn't Joe. He waffled on India and frankly still is waffling on India. He called himself a dictator, right? Good stuff here. Keep the laughs coming. while the nation suffers under your party's malfeasance.

 

Trump did jack **** for that. The companies used their own money to develop their products and they didn't wait for T**** to even admit the problem existed. Don't try and give him credit for the work of others as he is so fond of doing himself.
BTW, I'm still projecting that when all the **** hits the fan and he finds himself completely bankrupted that he'll be living the high life off his PAC that he runs with limited financial over site which will not be technically his money but he can spend pretty much how he wants and he'll be laughing, privately, at all the dupes that contributed. Of course enough criminal indictments would eat that up to keep him out of prison, I can dream right?

 

Yeah... But I chalk comments like this up to attempting to whitewash the history to defend the authority of democratic presidents. It's what they must do in order to have anything of a legacy that might last or endure. For Biden, it just must gall him to death that his success if predicated on the success of the legacy of the Trump presidency. And just for grins, Biden hasn't himself done a shred of effort here. Why should you want to give him any credit at all? Did you suddenly get more aid to dependent countries monies?

 

The vaccination effort was fully underway during the Trump administration. Neither Pres Trump nor Pres Biden have had any impact on the development of these vaccines, neither have had an impact on the supply chain strategies developed by the manufacturers themselves, nor has either President had an impact on the downstream distribution and administration of the vaccine. For either one of these Presidents to take any credit for this effort whatsoever is an unsubstantiated act of the worst sort of pure conceited political vanity. And to put it bluntly anyone who believes these President's claims that they made any part of this possible is, well, an idiot.

We owe our thanks to the researchers, to the doctors, to the human genuine pigs, to the manufacturers, to the distributors, to the stores and health facilities and the workers therein putting shot into arm, and to the people themselves for taking it, NOT to Presidents Trump or Biden.

 

"Where's the plan?" World -- and insiders -- losing patience with Biden on vaccines

Calls an early lid.​

Now the rest of the world wonders where Biden’s promised assistance is. And so do members of his own administration:

 

Sorry but that is what I saw under Trump. During the Trump reign - where were the masks and social distancing? Where was the contact tracing?