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Nate Silver: ‘Liberal elites’ pressured Pfizer to delay vaccine until after 2020 election
The New York Post ^ | August 25, 2022 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 08/27/2022 12:20:36 PM PDT by Twotone

Nate Silver claimed “liberal public health elites” pressured Pfizer to delay fast-track approval of its COVID-19 vaccine until after the 2020 presidential election — thus denying then-President Donald Trump a political win before voters headed to the polls.

The number-crunching data journalist reacted to an article by Politico that cited a House report that claimed the Trump administration sought to expedite approvals for both vaccines and “unproven treatments” for COVID-19.

“‘Trump pushed for vaccine approvals too fast’ is the worst possible critique of the Trump administration’s COVID policy,” Silver, founder of the Disney-owned FiveThirtyEight political news and analysis website, tweeted.

“That probably saved a lot of lives. If anything approval should have been faster.”

In a subsequent tweet, Silver wrote that “liberal public health elites” pushed Pfizer to “change its original protocols” that govern its authorization of vaccines so that the decision would be put off until after Election Day two years ago.

Silver noted that Pfizer’s decision “had the convenient side-effect of delaying any vaccine announcement until after the election” and that the story “deserves more scrutiny.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; albertbourla; conspiracy; iylm; liberalelites; pfizer; slowwalking; vaccine
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1 posted on 08/27/2022 12:20:36 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Trump mentioned this...after the election was stolen.


2 posted on 08/27/2022 12:24:04 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Twotone

‘Trump pushed for vaccine approvals too fast’

The left is nothing if not predictable. Whatever the Americans do is wrong.


3 posted on 08/27/2022 12:25:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Twotone

“ if it only saves 1 life”

After Biden takes office.

Americans can die until then.
Even the 81 million Biden voters.


4 posted on 08/27/2022 12:28:02 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: rrrod

So they will burn Trump twice with this. First they delay it so it won’t help him next when they are ready to admit it is has some serious problems they will say he pressured them to release it before it was ready.


5 posted on 08/27/2022 12:30:47 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Twotone

The history books will not be kind to liberals during this period of time.

They “think” just the opposite at the moment. But the TRUTH always comes out in the end. It may take decades, but it will come out.

Think of all the crap we know for sure now about even icons like JFK.

It ALL comes out in the end.


6 posted on 08/27/2022 12:31:33 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: gibsonguy

You’re right


7 posted on 08/27/2022 12:31:52 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Twotone

So according to their take on the vaccine, the democrats murdered thousands to help them win the election.

Don’t forget that creep Kamala told people not to trust the vaccine.

Then they made it a firing offense not to take it.

But hey whatever. Trump once didn’t wear a mask from 25 feet away.


8 posted on 08/27/2022 12:32:49 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

History books are always rewritten by the victors. Count on it.


9 posted on 08/27/2022 12:33:42 PM PDT by silent majority rising ( )
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I care a lot about history and I don’t give a good F about what history will say.

I care about what people believe and do right now.

As for history, Woodrow Wilson was treated like a hero for about a hundred years. Ever see his biopic? Pure propaganda.


10 posted on 08/27/2022 12:35:15 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Twotone

I think Trump dodged a poison pill. Dems own the vaccine, the shutdown, the riots, the resulting recession... All of it.


11 posted on 08/27/2022 12:36:08 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: silent majority rising

True, but then more time goes by and real historians eventually tell the truth of what really happened as the partisan tensions which glossed over the truth at the time dissipate over time.

Eventually, the real, full truth comes out. It doesn’t matter how hard to try to hide it. (think of Jeffersons slave children)


12 posted on 08/27/2022 12:37:46 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: silent majority rising

The books are written by the victors but the truth always finds its own way out.


13 posted on 08/27/2022 12:39:33 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Twotone

Will Nate be cancelled now?


14 posted on 08/27/2022 12:42:30 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: BenLurkin

Yep, Trump’s fault!


15 posted on 08/27/2022 12:45:47 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: Twotone

Nate Silver is first and foremost a propagandist. His polls are fake. They are just propaganda. They are released to drum up or limit enthusiasm. The are not science. They are not ever accurate. Nate is proof that Murdoch and Fox at the top level are part of the elite, trying to get conservatives to do as they say. Fortunately Fox has to hire a large number of actual conservatives to get us to watch. Then they slide in the fakes like Mike Wallace or Nate Silver.


16 posted on 08/27/2022 12:50:31 PM PDT by poinq
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The Sally Hemmings paternity claims are by no means settled. Randall Jefferson is a far more likely candidate than his older brother Thomas.


17 posted on 08/27/2022 12:50:59 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Twotone

Of course they did. The whole election was a bit of a perfect storm of manipulation and fraud. What is Nate gaining by exposing this now?


18 posted on 08/27/2022 12:57:41 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Valpal1

“The Sally Hemmings paternity claims are by no means settled. Randall Jefferson is a far more likely candidate than his older brother Thomas.”

I have read several articles and books on this matter. I concluded that Thomas Jefferson’s brother, Randolph, was likely the father of Eston Hemmings, and one of Randolph’s sons (Isham) was likely the father of Sally Hemmings’ other children.


19 posted on 08/27/2022 1:25:38 PM PDT by riverdawg (Wells Fargo is my bank and I have no complaints.)
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To: BradyLS

The Democrats are going to Hang themselves on the National crime wave Soros created.


20 posted on 08/27/2022 1:30:35 PM PDT by cnsmom
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