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For every week we didn’t have a COVID-19 vaccine, more people died, more children were kept out of school, and more damage was done to society.
Yet it’s become increasingly clear that the FDA put the brakes on the vaccine at the 11th hour, delaying its authorization because Democrats — worried it would help Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election prospects — undermined public confidence in the vaccine development efforts.
We may never know how much damage was done in the name of politics. But one victim is clear: Americans’ trust in their government and public health experts.
Democrats are trying to deflect blame for this scandal by claiming the inverse: that the Trump administration undermined public trust by irresponsibly trying to “rush” the vaccine for political gain.
Last month, in a congressional report provocatively titled “A ‘Knife Fight’ with the FDA: The Trump White House’s Relentless Attacks on FDA’s Coronavirus Response,” the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis alleged that Trump administration officials “blocked FDA from issuing guidance on coronavirus vaccine authorizations for weeks in an attempt to ensure that the first vaccine could be authorized before the 2020 presidential election.”
It claims that the administration’s actions “resulted in damaging consequences for the coronavirus response” by undermining public confidence in the vaccine. --->READ MORE HERE
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We slammed candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris back in September 2020 for their reckless, baseless fearmongering about the coming COVID vaccines, but we didn’t realize it would prove the deadliest demagoguery of modern times.
Now we know, as Joel Zinberg outlined for The Post, that their claims that the jab might not be safe (because, they charged, then-President Donald Trump might be pushing premature release) were quickly followed by a three-week extension of the safety-testing period — out of Food & Drug Administration fears of growing doubts about the vaccines.
The timeline: On Sept. 7, 2020, Biden warned, “I would want to see what the scientists said” about any vaccine; “I want full transparency.”
A week later, he went lower: “I trust vaccines. I trust scientists. But I don’t trust Donald Trump. And at this point, the American people can’t, either.”
Harris, meanwhile, insisted she’d “trust the word of public-health experts” but not Trump — and, worse, claimed those experts “will be muzzled, they will be suppressed, they will be sidelined.” At the vice-presidential debate, she added, “If Donald Trump tells us we should take [the vaccine], I’m not going to take it,” --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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