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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by apexalpha on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:33AM (#27061694)
It must sting that the (arguably) only successful thing to come out of this America First policy is now being credited to the Biden administration.

For all the mess Biden has inherited, he also inherited a near perfect vaccine production program. The reversals issued in the first 100 days did not reverse any export bans or regulations the Trump admin put in place for the vaccine production and rollout.

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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by loopz on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:46AM (#27061803)
The vaccine program was failing to rollout when Biden inherited it.
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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by apexalpha on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:49AM (#27061823)
The vaccines first got approval in December 2020, it wasn't failing it was just starting up. European vaccine rollout also had starting aches but was then very quickly limited by the supply-side.
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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by loopz on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:26AM (#27063739)
Fair point. As we've seen there is due process and concerns as seen with some vaccines.
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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by tharne on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:02PM (#27065264)
> The vaccine program was failing to rollout when Biden inherited it.

Regardless of what you think of Joe Biden or Donald Trump, this statement is categorically false.

There are enough legitimate things to criticize Donald Trump for that we don't need to make things up. As others have pointed out, the vaccine program was just starting up at the end of the Trump administration. Besides, much of the actual logistics were, and are, handled at the state level.

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