
Because that’s not what your article states... you are using the fact that government would buy a vaccine to a pandemic to give credit to Trump. That’s absurd... imagine if he spent the money he invested into chloroquine, into developing a vaccine, instead of trusting shaman screaming about demon spunk. Absurd... Trump failing upwards is over...
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Correct. Because in this situation every company who thinks they have a viable vaccine would rush development ASAP regardless of government incentive. Profit motive.
And this approach makes sense. There is little the government can do to accelerate clinical trials without reducing benefit and safety profiles below an acceptable standard but the logistics of widespread manufacturing and distribution make sense for the gov to help with given every company alone has limited line capacity and distribution capacity.
That doesn't change the reality that the current administration has nothing to take credit for with where Pfizer is at with the vaccine. Pfizer gets the credit.
It's not. That's not how clinical trials work. Please understand science.
I could promise them $200B for an AIDS vaccine or a therapeutic effective at combating all types of cancer. That doesn't mean that they'll develop or get it through clinical trials any faster.
"Never get on the bad side of small minded people who have a little power." - Evelyn (Gifted)
That's not what I said. I said there is no credit due up until this point. which is reality. You demanding Trump gets credit for Pfizer's vaccine development is what being a political hack really is.
I already said the manufacturing and distribution part of OWS makes sense and when that kicks in I'll be happy to give that program credit for helping.
Also reported for flaming.
Why are you posting this in the Trump thread? Why aren’t you posting this in corona thread? No self awareness? To quote Gulliani as he pushed a sex offender from NJ to claim he was cheated out a vote in Philly... Do you think we are stupid? Oh wait... you flame as much...
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What is the point of posting this here, if not to give Trump credit? What about Trump him self taking credit? WTF?
Trump isn’t the problem... we are...
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
What about 'no it isn't' is so hard for you to grasp? The 1.95 billion USD are a proposed purchase for 100 million units of vaccine, resulting in 19.50 USD per dose. A common price tag on any vaccine, and what they would have asked for in any case.
A) You're missing an 'any';
B) Trump will get credit for getting thousands of US citizens killed because of his failure, reluctance, or inability to act. Don't worry.
Hey! That's enough of that nonsense!
You clearly missed "Advance of Gas".
On topic: for those people worried about extracting Hairpiece to the Chief, fear not. A long-time friend and confidtant says Trump will go to Mar-a-lago for Christmas and...just stay there.
-- a non-anonymous source that's worked closely with Trump for yearsAfter Christmas, he usually comes back January 5th, January 6th. He likes to go to Mar-a-Lago. I suspect he doesn't even come back to Washington. I don't believe he's going to go to the inauguration because he himself fundamentally cannot sit in a chair knowing that the cameras are on him and that the world is looking at him as a loser. He cannot do that.
Unrelated: the growing suspicion is that Trump is swapping out long-term competent Pentagon officials with yes-men, because he wants to rush through a troop withdraw without dealing with the consequences. See also: "invited the Taliban to picnick on the White House lawn".
P.S. "As Dog Van Cafe"
That money makes science faster (it can, but doesn't always). That money makes clinical trials faster (it doesn't). That there's not already a MASSIVE incentive for ANY company to produce an effective vaccine that can be distributed both domestically and globally to tens/hundreds of millions of people, so $2B is pretty paltry compared to the potential global revenue they're looking at.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi

Docsavagefan is like trump and needs an interpreter. When he says "trump deserves credit for Pfizer vaccine" what he means is "I'm ignorant."
I'm not the one who keeps lying in this thread.
You seem to be under the misconception that pharma companies laze about and take their sweet time developing drugs and bringing them to market and they need some incentive to get them to do so quickly.
In reality, every single drug is a mad dash to get to market as soon as possible as to maximize profits -- this goes 100000x for any drug that's first to market. Some companies even pay the FDA millions of dollars for vouchers they can redeem for priority reviews so they can shave off a few months of review time with the agency.
If OWS didn't exist nothing up until this point would look differently. That's not being a hack, that's being educated and informed about that industry works.
OWS will accelerate the time from approval to dosing in patients. And for that we will be grateful.