The link says Pfizer didn't get money from Operation Warp Speed for research funding, but did get a $2 billion advance order from Operation Warp Speed. Here is another link that mentions this. https://www.npr.org/sections/health...y-contract-excludes-many-taxpayer-protections
They only get paid for the order when they deliver the doses. It's not like they were paid in advance. I will note that the demand for the Pfizer vaccine world-wide greatly outstrips the supply. It's not like Pfizer really needed the U.S. order.
2 billion is trumpchange to Pfizer and he has a history of running on the check. Ask the cities who hosted his Nuremberg rallies.
Vaccine will not be available to the general public until easily March or April so about a year from when it was proclaimed to be for everyone. Right now all the doses going to medical staff and highest at risk people. With the need for 2 doses it adds more time needed to get all the doses out to the general public enough to make a large dent....just simple logistics and large numbers, no one's fault. Big pharma got this vaccine out much quicker thanks to shorter trial times and hyper speed approvals. Tough times necesitate such actions. But let's not forget that $$$$$$ and a captive purchasing market for the next year was the real motivator. Pfizer and all those companies know they will sell this vaccine in millions of doses at a time for the next year. $$ I would drop everyting and speed up production of that.
Hey! Trump lost! Trump lied about covid! Trump called it a hoax! Trump called it a conspiracy! Trump didn't encourage masks! Trump didn't encourage distance! Trump held clown rallies during a pandemic! Now there's debate about Trump's contribution to the cure? Fuck outta here. Fuck Trump and those that continue to wash his balls.
Who cares? The point of the OP was that there were a number of "experts" and MSM outlets that said a vaccine was an impossibility. And here we are. They were all full of shit. Again.