Bingo... Also, I posted an earlier video of Trump making those demands and promises for political purposes. I also remember that "executive order" (another political publicity stunt) in which he stated about the vaccination process with the vaccine companies... America First. Things didn't go his way soon afterwards, Europe (U.K.) began vaccinations first. wrbtrader
Romney urges sweeping vaccine plan as U.S. surpasses 20 million COVID-19 cases https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-usa-idUKKBN2962LD U.S. Senator Mitt Romney on Friday urged the U.S. government to immediately enlist veterinarians, combat medics and others in an all-out national campaign to administer coronavirus vaccinations and slow a surging rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. The Utah Republican, who ran unsuccessfully for president as his party’s nominee in 2012, called for greater action as the Trump administration fell far short of its goal of vaccinating 20 million Americans with a first of two required doses by the end of 2020. As of Friday, the first day of the new year, an estimated 2.8 million vaccine doses have actually been given, mostly to front-line healthcare workers as well as staff and residents of nursing facilities. “That comprehensive vaccination plans have not been developed at the federal level and sent to the states as models is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable,” Romney said in a statement. The United States has lost more than 345,000 lives from COVID-19 to date, equal to one in every 950 Americans, and ranks 16th in national per capita coronavirus deaths in the world. Meanwhile, the tally of known U.S. infections reached another sober milestone on Friday, surpassing 20 million confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, and the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients exceeded 125,000, setting a daily record once more. California, the most populous state with 40 million residents, has become a leading U.S. flashpoint of the pandemic despite some of the nation’s toughest restrictions on social gatherings and business activities. HIDDEN DISASTER IN CALIFORNIA The soaring COVID-19 case load has pushed hospitals in and around Los Angeles in particular to their limits, filling emergency rooms, intensive care units, ambulance bays and morgues beyond capacity, and creating staff shortages. Briefing reporters on Thursday, Cathy Chidester, director of the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency, called the situation a “hidden disaster,” not plainly visible to the public. Medical experts attribute the worsening pandemic in recent weeks to the arrival of colder weather and the failure of many Americans to abide by public health warnings and requirements to stay home and avoid unnecessary travel over the year-end holiday season. The recent emergence of a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus in the United States could make a swift rollout of immunizations all the more critical. Romney called for deploying veterinarians, emergency medical workers and medical students to help deliver vaccinations and set up inoculation clinics at sites such as school buildings that are largely empty because of the pandemic. He also recommended establishing a clear order for Americans nationwide to receive their shots according to priority groups and birthdays, while welcoming other ideas from medical professionals. Prioritizing vaccine recipients is currently being handled state by state. With the inauguration of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden set for Jan. 20, Romney has emerged as one of the few leading members of his party to openly criticize fellow Republican President Donald Trump. Trump has repeatedly emphasized that he, not Biden, deserves credit for the speedy development of the vaccine, even as he has left immunization efforts largely to state and local officials to administer with the help of private pharmacies. States and localities, already hammered by the months-long fight against the outbreak and its economic fallout, only recently received federal money for vaccinations under the latest relief passage signed into law on Sunday. Trump has spent the weeks since his Nov. 3 re-election defeat rarely focused, at least in public, on the worsening pandemic. Instead, he has continued to make unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud while falsely asserting he won the election. OXYGEN SHORTAGES, LINES OF AMBULANCES Romney said the country needs to acknowledge the current vaccination plan “isn’t working” and is “woefully behind,” and that leaders must find ways to quickly bolster capacity. “It was unrealistic to assume that the healthcare workers already overburdened with COVID care could take on a massive vaccination program,” Romney said. The crisis faced by healthcare systems has become especially acute in Los Angeles County where one patient is dying every 10 minutes from the respiratory virus, according to county health officials. Heightened demands of caring for those struggling to breathe has also left many hospitals in the region short on oxygen, both in supplies and the ability of older facilities to maintain adequate pressure flow through ventilators, Chidester said. She also described ambulances forced to wait several hours at a time to unload patients, causing delays throughout the county’s emergency response system. To ease ER overcrowding, the county is denying ambulance transport to hospitals of emergency patients who are already under hospice care with do-not-resuscitate directives, according to Adam Blackstone, a spokesman for the Hospital Association of Southern California. The leading U.S. infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said on Wednesday he was confident of overcoming early glitches in the vaccine campaign, saying America could still achieve enough collective immunity through vaccinations to regain “some semblance of normality” by autumn 2021. Biden has vowed to use the Defense Production Act to boost the vaccination program and to send mobile vaccination units to help deliver shots in under-served areas.
You figured it out. gwBe-lying... just makes shit up based what he thinks a headline means and lies his ass off acting like he understands something. When you call him out on his misrepresentation there is a 90 percent change he will continue to lie to support his original lies. If you even spend 10 minutes going one step deeper on any subject related to Covid you see he is a dangerous lying moron.
Let me play Captain Nostradamus for a moment. When, not if, but when the vaccine rollout isn't going as planned here is the 100 percent guaranteed response from the Biden administration and the media minions. Trump left us a mess, he screwed it up and now it's going to take some time to unscramble the Trump mess. We can also expect this to be applied to everything else, economic recovery, foreign policy, mostly peaceful riots continuing, etc., etc. It's Trump's fault, the gift that will keep giving for all of 2021 and beyond.
But I am not the one complaining about the efficiency of the vaccine rollout, you are. What I questioned in those posts, and still have concerns, is how in the hell did they come up with a vaccine so quickly? A vaccine for what we're told is the most complex and mysterious virus ever? Never has a vaccine come to market this fast. So yeah, I did and still do have questions about that. Time will tell just how effective it is and if there are any longer term side effects yet to be seen. Maybe they got lucky, maybe the process has been deliberately slow to justify the FDA and all of its many bureaucrats, or maybe they just cut a few corners. Let's hope it works.
All administrations do this, it will never change. Trump was Obama didn't leave me enough of a stockpile of PPE 3 years in, etc etc. While there is some truth to all of it, would be nice to see politicians take some personal responsibility. It just happens to be more true that Obama inherited GWBs war and financial clusters, and Biden will have to follow a historically bad administration. Seems weird that one side, Clinton and Obama handed things off in pretty solid positions, while GWB and Trump handed things off in crisis. Hmmmm almost makes you think one side handles things better than the other.....
except you were complaining about something different altogether: Meanwhile, I was calling out Fauci on changing timelines, and posting about 100% effectiveness on vaccine trials when you were bitching about "vaccine being out too quick". No surprise, you righties always accuse others of what you do yourselves. AKA, blatant hypocrites w/amnesia:
Have faith in the Pfizer vaccine. Don’t forget they make Viagra. If they can raise the dead... they can save the living.
So true.Looking at the state of the country at end of Bushes and Trumps terms and compering it to the state Clinton and Obama left the country in its unfucking believable nearly half this country still vote for republican presidents.