ETA: Here's Jezebel's pre election coverage of their statements, when everyone still claimed Trump was lying about the vaccine being close.
>On Sunday, during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Harris was asked whether she would trust a vaccine doled out by the Trump administration before Election Day.
>“I think that we have learned since this pandemic started, but really before that, that there’s very little that we can trust that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth,” Harris said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/anti-vaxxer-accuses-...
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/27/western-states-join-califo...
They [Pfizer] delayed the announcement to three days after the elections. I'm sure those three days were critical in testing and making the vaccine safe for the consumer./s
It was an obvious political move to deny back-then US president Trump a public success as a consequence from him enacting "Operation Warp Speed".[0][1][2]
Also, "Trumpista"? You must feel really clever and enlightened.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/nov/20/trump-...
[1] https://outline.com/bH8vBM
[2] https://jewishjournal.com/news/314659/biden-is-backed-by-bot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed?wprov=sfl...
The US FDA was among the first world-wide to approve (Europe was months later) which in my mind shows that there is not much to an argument that political forces delayed the announcement (and how could the opposition / democrats influence a government institution such as the FDA if the ruling party couldn't? Please no deep state bonkers).
> The vaccines they are pushing now are the very same ones that were developed and tested while Trump was in office.
I would challenge that Trump should receive any political credit for supporting the development of the vaccines, because when the development was happening at Moderna (US) and BionTech (Germany) in spring 2020 Trump was still rejecting SARS-COV-19 as irrelevant. Trump should receive credit for Warpspeed that made sure the production of the developed vaccines is happening and is happening in a way that benefits the American people first (to great frustration to many Europeans).
You can't claim they were just following the rules, because they weren't. They bended and broke whatever rules they saw fit to get the vaccine done, including doing multiple phases simultaneously. If the FDA were following the rules, we still wouldn't have a vaccine available, because they still don't have full FDA approval.
>Trump was still rejecting SARS-COV-19 as irrelevant
Trump was called racist by Congressional D's for wanting to shut down the international travel to prevent the spread in February.
UK MHRA: Dec 2. US FDA: Dec 11. European EMA/EC: Dec 21. Months later? Hyperbole doesn't help your argument.
Still: don't you think the argument holds: US FDA is one of the first to approve is a sign that there can't be much delay.
I think some on the left would refuse it because Trump.
I think some on the right would accept it because Trump.
I think some would still be hesitant because their concerns with the vaccines are not political.