My post on CU responsive to a similar DU thread:
Let's see, a few recent history dates:
~December 15, 2019, doctors in Wuhan have seen enough similar cases to recognize an outbreak is happening;
~December 25, 2019, doctors in Wuhan start warning each other to take precautions when working with patients exhibiting certain symptoms;
December 31, 2019, someone in Wuhan leaks word to the west than an outbreak is happening;
By January 2, 2020, multiple labs in Wuhan have sequenced the unknown virus' DNA;
January 11, 2020, China communicated that DNA sequence to WHO;
From December 31, 2019 until January 20, 2020, China falsely denied there was evidence of human-human transmission;
January 23, 2020, China shut down transportation out of Hubei Province.
China systematically delayed providing information to the world, for ~4 weeks China lied about human-human transmission, and for ~5 1/2 weeks, China allowed people to travel from Wuhan and Hubei Province, inadvertently spreading the disease throughout China and the world.
Despite all that, the Trump Administration started screening at 3 major airports on January 17, 2020, started working with pharmaceuticals companies to develop and produce vaccines in the third week of January, and to produce an antibody treatment on January 28, and announced the China travel shutdown on January 31 (which Dems denounced).
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There is a realistic possibility that the AstraZeneca vaccine will be approved for use in October, and that Moderna's and Novavax's vaccines will be approved for use by the end of the year. All three companies have been aided in the development and testing processes by the Trump Administration. And several more are a few months behind those three in the testing process that have also been aided by the Trump Administration. IOW, the Dems will be faced with a hard choice:
* Watch their, "Trump did nothing for two months," campaign slogan crushed by reality;
* Falsely claim these vaccines are untested, a lie easily shown to be false.
The latter would also be foolish, since AstraZeneca is a UK-Swedish company and its vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, and Novavax's partner is BioNTech, a German company. So I think the Dems are likely to make that foolish false claim.
