aubiefifty 18,231 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Donald Trump accuses Pfizer of delaying coronavirus vaccine announcement until after election Josie Ensor 5-7 minutes Supporters of outgoing president Donald Trump gather during a rally in Oregon. Donald Trump had promised a vaccine before November 3 - Anadolu Agency Donald Trump has accused Pfizer and the US Food and Drug Administration of waiting until after the election to announce its positive vaccine news for political reasons. The President's comments on Twitter came hours after his son, Donald Trump Jnr, also questioned the timing of multinational pharmaceutical corporation's announcement, which came two days after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the bitterly fought presidential election. Despite cheering the news early on Monday, Mr Trump posted a series of tweets later attacking the timing of the announcement and also taking credit for the speed of its delivery. "As I have long said, @Pfizer and the others would only announce a Vaccine after the Election, because they didn’t have the courage to do it before. Likewise, the @US_FDA should have announced it earlier, not for political purposes, but for saving lives!," he said. "If Joe Biden were President, you wouldn’t have the Vaccine for another four years, nor would the @US_FDA have ever approved it so quickly. The bureaucracy would have destroyed millions of lives!" The @US_FDA and the Democrats didn’t want to have me get a Vaccine WIN, prior to the election, so instead it came out five days later – As I’ve said all along! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020 His eldest son also appeared to insinuate Pfizer had waited until after the election was called in the Democrats’ favour to make the news public, describing it as “nefarious”. Tweeting minutes after Pfizer’s statement was released, he said: “The timing of this is pretty amazing. Nothing nefarious about the timing of this at all right?” He also shared a link to a story that claimed talk of a second wave was “misleading”, suggesting that he believed the threat of coronavirus had been “exaggerated on purpose.” In doing so, he repeated one of his father’s favourite talking points that the media was overblowing the pandemic as part of a plot against him. The outgoing president told supporters during the campaign he believed should Mr Biden be elected, the media and the Democratic Party would "suddenly" stop covering the virus. Donald Trump had promised a vaccine before November 3, hoping it would boost his chances of re-election. However, scientists said the timeline was unlikely given trials were still ongoing. At the same time, Donald Trump tweeted about the trials, writing: “STOCK MARKET UP BIG, VACCINE COMING SOON. REPORT 90% EFFECTIVE. SUCH GREAT NEWS!” The stockmarket did skyrocket on Monday morning, breaking records on the news that late-stage clinical trial data for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate was more than 90 per cent effective. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up by 5.5 per cent, hovering at 29,887, well above its pre-pandemic peak of 29,569. A number of White House officials and advisers were quick to congratulate the outgoing president, who will be buoyed by the news as he continues to refuse to concede to Mr Biden. Outgoing vice president Mike Pence, who heads the White House’s coronavirus taskforce, meanwhile, lauded the administration’s supposed role in creating the vaccine. He tweeted: “HUGE NEWS: Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President @realDonaldTrump, @pfizer announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90 per cent of its volunteers.” However, Pfizer later made clear it had not joined the administration’s accelerated vaccine development programme, Operation Warp Speed, and had received no money from the US government for its research. Warp Speed had promised $2 billion (£1.5bn) to Pfizer to buy doses of any eventual vaccine, not for its development. Kathrin Jansen, a senior vice president and the head of vaccine research and development at Pfizer, said: “We were never part of the Warp Speed. We have never taken any money from the US government, or from anyone." Albert Bourla, Pfizer chairman and chief executive, said the election was always an artificial deadline - Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Albert Bourla, Pfizer chairman and chief executive, said the election was always an artificial deadline and that the data was going to be ready when it was ready. The independent data monitors met on Sunday, analysing the test results so far and notifying the company. One Twitter user, Bryan Swimmer, replied to Donald Trump Jnr’s tweet: “As someone who was part of the Pfizer vaccine study phase 3, that's been their timeline all along. Results by late October, then pushed back to early/mid November. Trying to politicise this is both sad and disgusting. But I guess that's par for the course for Trump's spawn.” Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s top-infectious disease expert who has been sidelined by the Trump administration, said the results suggesting 90 per cent effectiveness were “just extraordinary.” Dr Fauci said: “Not very many people expected it would be as high as that.” President-elect Joe Biden, for his part, welcomed the news but cautioned that it could be many months before vaccinations become widespread in the US, and he warned Americans to rely on masks and social distancing in the meantime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters of outgoing president Donald Trump gather during a rally in Oregon. Donald Trump had promised a vaccine before November 3 - Anadolu Agency Donald Trump has accused Pfizer and the US Food and Drug Administration of waiting until after the election to announce its positive vaccine news for political reasons. The President's comments on Twitter came hours after his son, Donald Trump Jnr, also questioned the timing of multinational pharmaceutical corporation's announcement, which came two days after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the bitterly fought presidential election. Despite cheering the news early on Monday, Mr Trump posted a series of tweets later attacking the timing of the announcement and also taking credit for the speed of its delivery. "As I have long said, @Pfizer and the others would only announce a Vaccine after the Election, because they didn’t have the courage to do it before. Likewise, the @US_FDA should have announced it earlier, not for political purposes, but for saving lives!," he said. "If Joe Biden were President, you wouldn’t have the Vaccine for another four years, nor would the @US_FDA have ever approved it so quickly. The bureaucracy would have destroyed millions of lives!" The @US_FDA and the Democrats didn’t want to have me get a Vaccine WIN, prior to the election, so instead it came out five days later – As I’ve said all along! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020 His eldest son also appeared to insinuate Pfizer had waited until after the election was called in the Democrats’ favour to make the news public, describing it as “nefarious”. Tweeting minutes after Pfizer’s statement was released, he said: “The timing of this is pretty amazing. Nothing nefarious about the timing of this at all right?” He also shared a link to a story that claimed talk of a second wave was “misleading”, suggesting that he believed the threat of coronavirus had been “exaggerated on purpose.” In doing so, he repeated one of his father’s favourite talking points that the media was overblowing the pandemic as part of a plot against him. The outgoing president told supporters during the campaign he believed should Mr Biden be elected, the media and the Democratic Party would "suddenly" stop covering the virus. Donald Trump had promised a vaccine before November 3, hoping it would boost his chances of re-election. However, scientists said the timeline was unlikely given trials were still ongoing. At the same time, Donald Trump tweeted about the trials, writing: “STOCK MARKET UP BIG, VACCINE COMING SOON. REPORT 90% EFFECTIVE. SUCH GREAT NEWS!” The stockmarket did skyrocket on Monday morning, breaking records on the news that late-stage clinical trial data for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate was more than 90 per cent effective. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up by 5.5 per cent, hovering at 29,887, well above its pre-pandemic peak of 29,569. A number of White House officials and advisers were quick to congratulate the outgoing president, who will be buoyed by the news as he continues to refuse to concede to Mr Biden. Outgoing vice president Mike Pence, who heads the White House’s coronavirus taskforce, meanwhile, lauded the administration’s supposed role in creating the vaccine. He tweeted: “HUGE NEWS: Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President @realDonaldTrump, @pfizer announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90 per cent of its volunteers.” However, Pfizer later made clear it had not joined the administration’s accelerated vaccine development programme, Operation Warp Speed, and had received no money from the US government for its research. Warp Speed had promised $2 billion (£1.5bn) to Pfizer to buy doses of any eventual vaccine, not for its development. Kathrin Jansen, a senior vice president and the head of vaccine research and development at Pfizer, said: “We were never part of the Warp Speed. We have never taken any money from the US government, or from anyone." Albert Bourla, Pfizer chairman and chief executive, said the election was always an artificial deadline - Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Albert Bourla, Pfizer chairman and chief executive, said the election was always an artificial deadline and that the data was going to be ready when it was ready. The independent data monitors met on Sunday, analysing the test results so far and notifying the company. One Twitter user, Bryan Swimmer, replied to Donald Trump Jnr’s tweet: “As someone who was part of the Pfizer vaccine study phase 3, that's been their timeline all along. Results by late October, then pushed back to early/mid November. Trying to politicise this is both sad and disgusting. But I guess that's par for the course for Trump's spawn.” Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s top-infectious disease expert who has been sidelined by the Trump administration, said the results suggesting 90 per cent effectiveness were “just extraordinary.” Dr Fauci said: “Not very many people expected it would be as high as that.” President-elect Joe Biden, for his part, welcomed the news but cautioned that it could be many months before vaccinations become widespread in the US, and he warned Americans to rely on masks and social distancing in the meantime.
Supporters of outgoing president Donald Trump gather during a rally in Oregon. Donald Trump had promised a vaccine before November 3 - Anadolu Agency Donald Trump has accused Pfizer and the US Food and Drug Administration of waiting until after the election to announce its positive vaccine news for political reasons. The President's comments on Twitter came hours after his son, Donald Trump Jnr, also questioned the timing of multinational pharmaceutical corporation's announcement, which came two days after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the bitterly fought presidential election. Despite cheering the news early on Monday, Mr Trump posted a series of tweets later attacking the timing of the announcement and also taking credit for the speed of its delivery. "As I have long said, @Pfizer and the others would only announce a Vaccine after the Election, because they didn’t have the courage to do it before. Likewise, the @US_FDA should have announced it earlier, not for political purposes, but for saving lives!," he said. "If Joe Biden were President, you wouldn’t have the Vaccine for another four years, nor would the @US_FDA have ever approved it so quickly. The bureaucracy would have destroyed millions of lives!" The @US_FDA and the Democrats didn’t want to have me get a Vaccine WIN, prior to the election, so instead it came out five days later – As I’ve said all along! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020 His eldest son also appeared to insinuate Pfizer had waited until after the election was called in the Democrats’ favour to make the news public, describing it as “nefarious”. Tweeting minutes after Pfizer’s statement was released, he said: “The timing of this is pretty amazing. Nothing nefarious about the timing of this at all right?” He also shared a link to a story that claimed talk of a second wave was “misleading”, suggesting that he believed the threat of coronavirus had been “exaggerated on purpose.” In doing so, he repeated one of his father’s favourite talking points that the media was overblowing the pandemic as part of a plot against him. The outgoing president told supporters during the campaign he believed should Mr Biden be elected, the media and the Democratic Party would "suddenly" stop covering the virus. Donald Trump had promised a vaccine before November 3, hoping it would boost his chances of re-election. However, scientists said the timeline was unlikely given trials were still ongoing. At the same time, Donald Trump tweeted about the trials, writing: “STOCK MARKET UP BIG, VACCINE COMING SOON. REPORT 90% EFFECTIVE. SUCH GREAT NEWS!” The stockmarket did skyrocket on Monday morning, breaking records on the news that late-stage clinical trial data for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate was more than 90 per cent effective. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up by 5.5 per cent, hovering at 29,887, well above its pre-pandemic peak of 29,569. A number of White House officials and advisers were quick to congratulate the outgoing president, who will be buoyed by the news as he continues to refuse to concede to Mr Biden. Outgoing vice president Mike Pence, who heads the White House’s coronavirus taskforce, meanwhile, lauded the administration’s supposed role in creating the vaccine. He tweeted: “HUGE NEWS: Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President @realDonaldTrump, @pfizer announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90 per cent of its volunteers.” However, Pfizer later made clear it had not joined the administration’s accelerated vaccine development programme, Operation Warp Speed, and had received no money from the US government for its research. Warp Speed had promised $2 billion (£1.5bn) to Pfizer to buy doses of any eventual vaccine, not for its development. Kathrin Jansen, a senior vice president and the head of vaccine research and development at Pfizer, said: “We were never part of the Warp Speed. We have never taken any money from the US government, or from anyone." Albert Bourla, Pfizer chairman and chief executive, said the election was always an artificial deadline - Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Albert Bourla, Pfizer chairman and chief executive, said the election was always an artificial deadline and that the data was going to be ready when it was ready. The independent data monitors met on Sunday, analysing the test results so far and notifying the company. One Twitter user, Bryan Swimmer, replied to Donald Trump Jnr’s tweet: “As someone who was part of the Pfizer vaccine study phase 3, that's been their timeline all along. Results by late October, then pushed back to early/mid November. Trying to politicise this is both sad and disgusting. But I guess that's par for the course for Trump's spawn.” Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s top-infectious disease expert who has been sidelined by the Trump administration, said the results suggesting 90 per cent effectiveness were “just extraordinary.” Dr Fauci said: “Not very many people expected it would be as high as that.” President-elect Joe Biden, for his part, welcomed the news but cautioned that it could be many months before vaccinations become widespread in the US, and he warned Americans to rely on masks and social distancing in the meantime.
creed 1,787 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 It would be interesting to know when 60 minutes filmed their segment on the Pfizer vaccine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 12,230 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 There are now two kinds of people in this country: 1) Those who are not at all surprised at Trump claiming such a ridiculous conspiracy. 2) Those who will actually believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLoofus 35,182 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 49 minutes ago, creed said: It would be interesting to know when 60 minutes filmed their segment on the Pfizer vaccine. You could probably find that out pretty easily. Let us know what you learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creed 1,787 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 44 minutes ago, homersapien said: There are now two kinds of people in this country: 1) Those who are not at all surprised at Trump claiming such a ridiculous conspiracy. 2) Those who will actually believe it. There's another and I'm surprised you didn't include it. It's an old southern expression brought up through the ages i suppose. "Don't believe in what you hear and only half of what you see." I've learned this is a good filter to kick start my cognitive, reasoning and thinking activities. In the end I may be totally of base but at least I feel I've put in the effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 21,241 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Of course, Drumpf thinks the entire universe conspires against him any time things don't go his way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUFAN78 4,156 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 No one, no one has ever been biased against Trump. Signed: I have my head up my a$$. (and I have a low IQ, but who's counting) Come on guys, this childs play isn't helping anyone. Know that. Work on healing a country, not dividing it further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumps 3,706 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 15 minutes ago, AUFAN78 said: No one, no one has ever been biased against Trump. Signed: I have my head up my a$$. (and I have a low IQ, but who's counting) Come on guys, this childs play isn't helping anyone. Know that. Work on healing a country, not dividing it further. Thank you! My guess is that this board is similar to the general public in that many people who preferred Trumps policies over Biden's still do not like Trump and actually hope that Biden can be successful in bringing some unity. So far the liberals are still too busy bashing soon-to-be-ex-POTUS Trump and gloating to try to build bridges. I fear that this democrat POTUS will turn out like the last one and instead of trying to unify us will turn to the "elections have consequences" talk. If so, it will be true, but won't necessarily be what is best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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