The administration under Trump / Pence gets credit for starting Operation Warp Speed. Yet, the administration under Biden / Harris will get credit for managing the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States and so many other things associated with being a world leader. wrbtrader
Credit is based on performance, imo. Anyone can start a project. Pfizer was first with the vaccine, yet, took no Warp Speed money. So, Warp Speed money was probably just a nice bonus check to the companies that took.
Personally I don't give him any credit.The vaccine was created in another country with no US federal funding. Other countries had the vaccine first and started vaccinating their citizens before the US did.After The US had the vaccine it was slowly and poorly distributed because Trump didn't want to do the work and passed the job off to the states while he spent all his time and effort trying to overturn the election.
yeah, no shit doctor: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/politics/fauci-biden-covid-approach-cnntv/index.html Fauci says lack of candor from Trump administration 'very likely' cost lives Washington (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that the lack of truthfulness from the Trump administration regarding the Covid-19 pandemic "very likely" cost American lives. "Particularly when you're in the situation of almost being in a crisis with the number of cases and hospitalizations and deaths that we have -- when you start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful," Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said on CNN's "New Day" Friday. Asked by CNN's John Berman if the lack of candor over the last year and lack of facts, in some cases, cost lives, Fauci said, "You know, it very likely did." He warned that it's "not helpful" when "you're starting to go down paths that are not based on any science at all," adding that he doesn't wish to rehash the ways in which the Trump administration steered away from science.
In less than a year more people in the U.S. have died of COVID than died in the military during multiple years of WW2... There are more Americans who died from COVID-19 than U.S. military deaths in WWII https://www.wtkr.com/news/national/...rom-covid-19-than-u-s-military-deaths-in-wwii Just over 408,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That staggering number is higher than the number of American servicemembers who died during World War II. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 291,557 Americans died in battle between 1941 and 1945, and another 113,842 members of the military died in service during the war. That is a total of 405,399 deaths of servicemembers over the five-year period. There have been more than 408,000 deaths from COVID-19 in one year. The first patient in America to test positive for the coronavirus was on January 21, 2020, and the first death in America from the coronavirus is believed to be on February 6. A post-mortem investigation found the deceased had coronavirus. There were more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 in America in less than a month. On December 22, the country recorded 300,000 deaths, and by January 19, 400,000 deaths. Back in October, a scientific model used by the University of Washington predicted deaths from COVID-19 could reach 500,000 by March 2021 if mask wearing, social distancing and other preventative measures were not universally adopted. “We find that achieving universal mask use (95% mask use in public) could be sufficient to ameliorate the worst effects of epidemic resurgences in many states,” the study stated. Also fueling the recent surge are variants of the coronavirus popping up in various states. Scientists say some of these variants are more transmissible, however it is not clear if they cause more severe symptoms. “A higher rate of transmission will lead to more cases, increasing the number of persons overall who need clinical care, exacerbating the burden on an already strained health care system, and resulting in more deaths,” a CDC report from last week stated. The CDC believes the UK variant could spread quickly around the U.S. and become the dominant strain by March.
This is really just another meaningless statistic. The number of people dying from cancer, diabetes, obesity, various other diseases nearly approaches this number year after year, decade after decade.
To the last part of this story, initial review of the UK variant show it may be 30% more deadly than the “wild” strain. *On a side note, when watching Fauci at the white house yesterday I learned the original strain of virus before it mutates is termed “wild.”