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Donald Trump received indirect praise for the vaccines from Joe Biden. This is the expert opinion on Trump’s real vaccine efforts.
The United States and the United Kingdom are among the countries that have approved covid-19 vaccines and started the process of vaccinating the population against the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly taken much of the credit for developing the vaccines, claiming that any other president of the United States would spend much more time putting in place a coronary vaccine.
In a television interview on CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Thursday night, incoming President Joe Biden was asked if there was anything he wanted to thank Donald Trump for.
– Is there anything about your predecessor, the current president, for which I can sincerely thank you? asked host Stephen Colbert.
After a short pause, Biden replied:
– Well, the answer is that there is something. I think what he has done to make the vaccine move has been positive. But for the most part, he’s been a president who has decided that the way he’s doing it is by dividing us, Biden responded.
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Biden also spoke a bit about the logistical challenges of distributing the vaccine to Americans.
Fox News states that “Joe Biden commends the president for putting the vaccine in motion.” However, the television station, which was previously very pro-Trump in its coverage, chose to omit the rest of Biden’s response.
– Can Trump take part of the credit for the vaccine?
As is well known, Trump has blatantly bragged about his own efforts to launch a coronavirus vaccine.
It was last week that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quickly approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. On Thursday of this week, the FDA also approved the Moderna vaccine.
The online newspaper has spoken to the Norwegian Medicines Agency and a political scientist about the extent to which Trump can take credit for the ongoing vaccination.
– Americans should be honored for vaccine development. But there is an interesting difference between the two vaccines that are at the forefront. BioNTech has received money from Germany. Pfizer has not received money from the US or other countries, while Moderna has received large sums from the US This probably means that Pfizer is freer to administer the vaccine to whoever it wants, says the Agency’s medical director Norway Medicines, Steinar Madsen, to Nettavisen.
– It is the German company BioNTech that is behind the idea of the Pfizer vaccine. They started developing the vaccine in Germany as early as January. While Moderna has conducted its research in the United States. The US government has backed Moderna with nearly $ 1 billion, Madsen says.
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NORCE Research Center Principal Investigator Hilmar Mjelde says Trump can take some credit for the fact that vaccines have been urgently developed and approved.
“The scientific production of the vaccine itself has been the responsibility of the companies, but the Trump administration has contributed great financial and logistical resources in the deployment of the vaccine,” Mjelde told Nettavisen.
– Trump also came out and promised a vaccine breakthrough soon, while critics dismissed it as happy talk. Trump got there. On the other hand, he has rejected science in other contexts when it did not suit him, especially on the climate issue. His rhetoric about “the deep state” is now reflected in widespread skepticism about vaccines, says Mjelde.
Political pressure
– Can Trump take credit for the vaccines being approved so quickly by the FDA, Madsen?
– It’s hard to say, but it may have had a meaning. It’s clear that if you look at the entire pandemic, there has obviously been pressure on the FDA. Among other things, the FDA came under more or less pressure to urgently approve the use of hydroxychloroquine (antimalarial drug, editor’s note) against the crown, which Trump is also said to have taken. There is little doubt that this was political pressure. The rush approval was withdrawn after a while because the decision was not made on a good enough scientific and professional basis, Madsen says.
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– There have also been some episodes during press conferences where FDA Director Stephen Hahn has said things that have been downright painful for a professional like me to hear. In Norway, we assume that the Norwegian Medicines Agency is completely independent, that no one else can decide which medicines should be approved, says Madsen.
In Europe, it is the European Commission that ultimately makes the decision on the approval of the vaccine, after the vaccine has been evaluated and possibly approved by the EU Scientific Committee (CHMP). Norway is obliged to comply with the decisions of the EU. The EU approval of the Pfizer vaccine could take place next week, while the EU evaluation of the Moderna vaccine is scheduled for the first week of January.
– In Europe, drug approval is much less political than in the United States. In the United States, political leadership has a direct influence. But it is clear that there has been a strong desire from many countries in Europe for rapid approval of these vaccines. We have spared no effort, but we do it as quickly as possible on the condition that we can guarantee the result both professionally and scientifically, says Madsen.
– Trump is failing
This week, a new record was set with more than 3,600 corona deaths in the United States in one day. To date, 310,000 Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus and covid-19 disease.
Mjelde says the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic, in addition to the vaccine, is failing.
– There has been deliberate carelessness and incompetence in crisis management throughout the year, which contributed to his losing reelection. Regardless, all presidents take credit for the positive things that happen while in power. All presidents would take credit for developing the vaccine, even if they had been more precise and accountable than Trump, Mjelde says.
– The advance of the vaccine and the agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors will remain as the main positive results of the Trump administration. But everything negative will be remembered even more, he says.
Mjelde refers, among other things, to the peace agreement that was signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates earlier this year.
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