quote Originally posted by Hudini: That's absolutely hilarious. Hidin' Biden taking credit for Trump's Operation Warp Speed. Hell I bet you even spout the DNC propaganda that "there was no distribution plan".

Bill Gates, among others, has said that the federal government's conception and execution of "Warp Speed" under the Trump administration has been praiseworthy, in terms of the rapid development of usable vaccines for the U.S. population. The Bill Gates remark that I am remembering did not go beyond that, into any appraisal of vaccines distribution planning and preparedness.

Iif there was a Donald J. Trump "secret sauce" in the Warp Speed recipe--something that sets it apart from what any likely other federal administration could have accomplished--I don't know what that would be.

The first Covid vaccine that received a federal emergency use authorization from the FDA was the Pfizer vaccine.

This is from November 13, 2020, as reported in the Associated Press:

quote Pfizer notably did not accept government money to develop, test or expand manufacturing capacity under Trump’s Operation Warp Speed initiative to quickly find a vaccine and treatments for the disease sweeping the country. In fact, Pfizer partnered with the vaccine’s original developer, Germany’s BioNTech, in March and the following month announced the first human study in Germany. The White House announced Operation Warp Speed in May. Pfizer opted not to join Operation Warp Speed initially but is following the same general requirements for the vaccine’s development as competitors who received government research money. The company says it has risked $2 billion of its own money on vaccine development and won’t get anything from Washington unless the effort is successful. “Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine development and manufacturing costs have been entirely self-funded,” Pfizer spokeswoman Jerica Pitts said this week. “We decided to self-fund our efforts so we could move as fast as possible.”

The report continues with this:

quote Pfizer did sign an agreement with the U.S. government in July [2020] worth $1.95 billion — if the vaccine pans out and is cleared by the FDA — to supply 100 million doses. That guarantees Pfizer a U.S. market, an important incentive.

Just a week ago (March 10, 2021) there was a press release from the Office of Donald J. Trump:

quote I hope everyone remembers when they're getting the COVID-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn't President, you wouldn't be getting that beautiful "shot" for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn't be getting it all. I hope everyone remembers!

That's an exorbitant amount of credit for Trump to try to claim for himself. For what? The July 2020 anticipatory or pre-purchase agreement by the U.S. government for $1.95 billion to secure a supply of the Pfizer vaccine? For other actions and agreements of that kind that were part of Operation Warp Speed?

Veritably, the U.S. government committed to purchase $1.95 billion of the Pfizer vaccine several months before the Pfizer project had advanced to the milestone of receiving an emergency use authorization from the FDA, and that pre-purchase agreement has proven out to have been a smart move, but was it rocket science?


It's basically just the reversal or the inversion of a very old idea. "I will gladly agree to pay you now (or agree now to pay you) for a supply of vaccine starting TBD."

I don't think it took a "Donald J. Trump" to come up with that.

"AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts on vaccine, state distribution"
Hope Yen, Lauren Neergaard and Candice Choi for the Associated Press; November 13, 2020.
https://apnews.com/article/...586b207990396c1e3b5f

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