Raw Story,
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... just in case Trump wasn't able to kill enough people by ignoring the virus, now he's not ordering enough vaccinations for all 330-plus million Americans. . Pfizer offered Trump a deal for another 100 million vaccines, but he refused them. After bad press on the topic, Moderna similarly offered a deal that would offer additional vaccinations for the U.S. government but that was ultimately accepted.
1. Ummmmmmm ... how did those vaccine
s get tested and approved in record time?
2.
Vaccines. The Trump Administration has ordered:
AstraZeneca - 300 million doses, May 21, 2020;
Inovio - In Phase II testing, order not yet placed;
Johnson & Johnson - 100 million doses,
with an option to purchase 200 million more, August 5, 2020;
Moderna - 100 million doses,
with an option to purchase 400 million more, August 11, 2020; the Trump Administration has exercised part of its option, purchasing another 100 million doses, December 11, 2020;
Novavax - 100 million doses, July 7, 2020;
Pfizer - 100 million doses,
with an option to purchase 500 million more, July 22, 2020; the Trump Administration has exercised part of its option, purchasing another 100 million doses, December 23, 2020;
Sanofi - 100 million doses,
with an option to purchase 500 million more, July 31, 2020;
Vaxart - In Phase I testing, order not yet placed.
The options to purchase more 100s of millions of doses were in the original contracts. Note that the Moderna option was exercised before Moderna's vaccine was given Emergency Use Authorization.
So among all these vaccine manufacturers, 1 billion doses have been ordered by the Trump Administration, enough to vaccinate the population of the US nearly 3 times per person (the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is single-dose), ignoring the fact that adolescents and children cannot be vaccinated. Of the two vaccines that have been approved, 400 million doses are on order, probably enough to vaccinate that part of the US' population that is over 16 (Pfizer) and 18 (Moderna).
I should not have to point this out, but already have in a FB discussion. The Trump Administration made all these contracts months before it was known how many of the several vaccines would be successful. The contracts were conditional on approval, so they weren't entirely a pig-in-a-poke. Thus:
* The Trump Administration did not put all the taxpayers' $$ in a single vaccine basket;
* As we are seeing, vaccines are being approved over time, which means that with each vaccine another manufacturing base is added to the supply chain, widening the neck of the bottle, so to speak.
IOW, contrary to the
Raw Story's writer's moronic and ignorant criticism, the Trump Administration wisely spread its contracts to reduce risk of delay/failure and avert production bottlenecks. Not that DU-grade Progs like
Raw Story's writer or
Star-Moron BigBearJohn would understand the advantages of multi-sourcing. They probably don't even understand that Pfizer's and Moderna's first 100M doses apiece will be delivered over time, not instantaneously. DU-grade Progs are like the ignorami/ignoramae who think that milk and steaks are produced by grocery stores.