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NBC NEWS: Trump needs "Medical Miracle" for US to get vaccine by year's end! DONE!!


Back in May, NBC News "Fact-Checked" Pres. Trump's claim that we'd have a vaccine before the year's end.
"But experts say that the development, testing and production of a vaccine for the public is still at least 12 to 18 months off, and that anything less would be a medical miracle."
The Trump Vaccine is being distributed this week. MEDICAL MIRACLE? DONE!!
God bless you, Pres. Trump!!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccine-could-come-year-trump-says-experts-n1207411

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Trump was referring to widespread distribution of it. We aren't going to see a vaccine roll out until 2021.

Trump also lied about his operation warp speed helping Pfizer produce the better vaccine. Trump also failed to secure Pfizer's doses, so EU will get most of them.

But I'm just spewing facts here. You cultists aren't interested in any of that nonsense.

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> But I'm just spewing facts here. You cultists aren't interested in any of that nonsense.

True, the phrase pearls before swine comes to mind.

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You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial. This is — as the country and the world are rightly celebrating — the fastest timeline of development in the history of vaccines. It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it.


https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html

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Utilizing mRNA vaccine technology meant Pfizer and Moderna only needed the coronavirus' genetic sequence to make a vaccine — no live virus had to be cultured and grown in labs. That's why they were able to progress in record time. In contrast, for most traditional vaccine platforms, the process can take years.


https://www.businessinsider.com/moderna-designed-coronavirus-vaccine-in-2-days-2020-11

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Right, but none of that matters for getting a country vaccinated before 2021. They have to go through trials and then they have to mass produce the vaccine to cover at least the first-world countries, and that just couldn't happen in 2020.

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Thanks for posting that.

My understanding is that these RNA vaccines are new and theoretical. I hope the testing is going well. I don't really care for this, which you did not put in your excerpt.

It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it.

To be clear, I don’t want to suggest that Moderna should have been allowed to roll out its vaccine in February or even in May, when interim results from its Phase I trial demonstrated its basic safety. “That would be like saying we put a man on the moon and then asking the very same day, ‘What about going to Mars?’ ” says Nicholas Christakis, who directs Yale’s Human Nature Lab ...

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Clearly everyone is not going to be vaccinated before the end of his term.

There might be a few who get the vaccine and can make the next jab in 3 weeks and be complete.

So what ... it is not like Trump did anything besides try to take credit for it like he does with everything ... this greatest President since Lincoln phony.

Trump or not, I just hope there are very few to no bad reactions or glitches with the temperature control.

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I guess you missed the part where he lifted a lot of restrictions to have it available sooner, so yeah I guess he can take some credit.

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Why do you think he did that, and who asked him to. That's like crediting the guy who turned on the stadium lights for how good the ballgame was.

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So what ... it is not like Trump did anything besides try to take credit for it


So the guy who thought it was a brilliant idea to inject disinfectant didn't play a key role in formulating policy to expedite a vaccine program? Hard to believe, but okay.

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I'll give him all the credit he deserves for coming up with the UV/Bleach treatment.

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The Commander in Bleach

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rump has shot himself in the head so many times with dumb statements that nobody cares about whatever timeline exists between him and the vaccine. He didn't do squat concerning COVID in any constructive manner. He just let everything fall apart then when his failure was all-too obvious, he mouthed more lies about how much he would get done in such a short time. But HE didn't do anything helpful, just shot his fool mouth off like always.

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