President Donald Trump praised his administration’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic on Tuesday, touting Operation Warp Speed– the government program that facilitated the creation and rollout of a Covid vaccine in a historically short timeframe.
Trump, speaking at length to the press during a cabinet meeting, was midway through extolling his first-term economic record when he broached the topic of the pandemic.
“I had the greatest economy in the history of our country, my first four years despite covid, which was a very unfortunate situation for the whole world,” said the president. “We did a great job with it, never got the credit for the job we did.”
He continued, lauding the government operation behind the accelerated formulation, production, and distribution of vaccines to millions of Americans.
“Operation Warp Speed, people say, is one of the greatest achievements ever in politics or in the military because it was almost a military procedure,” said Trump. “But everybody, including [Vladimir] Putin, said that Operation Warp Speed, what you did with that, nobody can believe it and we did a great job.”
The president has spoken less frequently about his historic program in recent years, despite the praise it has garnered from many of his critics. Sections of his base have become increasingly against vaccines, especially Covid-19 shots, with coalitions like the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement push --->READ MORE HERE
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President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are allegedly planning to ban the COVID vaccine "within months," years after Trump labeled the vaccine's development during the pandemic as a "monumental achievement," according to an associate of Kennedy's.
An HHS spokesperson told Newsweek the agency does not comment on potential policy decisions.
Why It Matters
Trump said in December 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, that the development of a vaccine as part of Operation Warp Speed was a "historic" success.
He commended doctors, scientists, industry executives, and state and local leaders for expediting the process and mass distributing an initiative that later garnered criticism from a portion of his political base, along with questions and concerns about the vaccine's efficacy and potential health impacts.
Kennedy has faced criticism from some for his past remarks about vaccine safety and efficacy, which have been labeled as misleading and false. He has stated he is not "anti-vaccine."
Earlier this month, Kennedy announced a departmental decision to pull a total of $500 million in federal funding for 22 mRNA vaccine development projects "because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu."
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