Bugsy McGurk
President
The Moderna vaccine was developed in February 2020.Maderna did get money from Warp Speed while they were in development. Pfizer did not. They went into human trials in April 2020.
Biden used the Production act to get Merck producing the J&J vaccine...so we then had four producers, twice what we had under Trump.
I give Trump credit for accelerating the emergency use authorizations. I give BIden credit for ramping up production, distribution and application.
Right wingers struggle to give credit to Trump for anything and everything and do their best to avoid addressing his epic errors.
The bottom line is that the mRNA technology allowed for the development of the vaccines in record time, and they have been remarkably effective. We got very, very lucky. By comparison, 40 years after AIDS struck we still don’t have a vaccine against that virus.
The one thing Operation Warp Speed COULD have done is have hundreds of millions of doses available from the day they got approved. But that was not the case. Trump lost interest as soon as he knew it would not happen in time to boost his election chances. Happily, Biden came in and made it happen.