Simple answer: over 800 million doses
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Biden continues to denigrate or dismiss Operation Warp Speed and claim (or least blatantly insinuate) that he and his administration should get credit for the hugely successful vaccination program.
Malarkey!
Let’s do a deep dive, starting with the basics …
Dr. Fauci — Biden’s go-to political-scientist (and highest paid Federal employee) — told the nation repeatedly in 2020 that no vaccines would be available until mid-2021 at the earliest, more likely in 2022 … and possibly later than that.
For the record, the Pfizer vaccine got its Emergency Use Authorization on December 11, 2020 … and, we’re on a track to have the country vaccinated before Fauci — who is always certain, but often wrong — said the first shot would be available.
In subsequent posts, I’ll be referring back to Fauci’s gross misjudgment.
Spoiler alert: I’ll be arguing that his pessimism gave states legitimacy for procrastinating their preparations for the vaccine rollout … which left many states unprepared (or underprepared) when the vaccines were approved.
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Biden even said in a CNN townhall that there was were no vaccines available when he took office. Source
Apparently, he forget that he got his first dose on December 21, 2020 … and his 2nd dose on January 11, 2021.
Senior moment or intentional fib?
Biden has backtracked on that remark but…
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Biden keeps claiming, to this day, that Trump’s Operation Warp Speed was negligent for not ordering enough vaccine.
C’mon, man.
For openers, the Operation Warp Speed team made pre-approval vaccine commitments in mid-2020…
That is, they placed non-cancellable vaccine orders before any of the vaccines were proven effective in clinical trials and approved for use.
Note: These pre-approval commitments mitigated drugmakers’ risks … allowing them to put manufacturing capacity in place “on spec”, instead of waiting to start after FDA approval.
Fact: As part of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration entered into contracts with multiple drugmakers … while their potential vaccines were still in clinical trials … and, with no certainty that the respective vaccines would ever be approved.
Specifically, pre-approval commitments were made to 6 vaccine manufacturers:
- Pfizer-BioNTech: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
- Moderna: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
- J&J: 100 million doses (one-dose regimen)
- AstraZeneca: 300 million doses (two-dose regimen)
- Novavax: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
- Sanofi-GSK: 100 million doses (one- or two-dose regimen)
If all 6 vaccines were to make it through clinical trials and the FDA approval process, the amounts agreed to under these pre-commitment contracts would total about 800 million vaccine doses, or enough to fully vaccinate more than 450 million people. Source
Of course, not all of the vaccines have been approved (yet) … and, some may never get approved.
So, let’s focus on the vaccines that have been approved…
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