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.”
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I’m surprised he admitted this
Yes. Also, I remember the left hated the vax because DJT had pressured the FDA to get the drug into production. But the moment the decrepit old fool took office the left suddenly found its true love: the vax.
It depends on who writes those history books, and what source materials have been purged along the way.
I know people here don’t like Nate Silver, but he is an objective statistician, and is not a political hack like many others. Unafraid to call it as the data indicates.
Likely they will be writing, editing and/or censoring the history books so I am not optimistic.
Out of the 81 million votes Biden “received”,
1.5 million were fraud votes in purple states, enough to swing those states in Biden’s column, and 10 million votes were against Trump due to harsh tweets and Trump’s attempts to bring manufacturing back which hurts the elites who profit from cheaper labor abroad. All the elite republicqans voted against Trump, including the Bushes, Romneys, McCains, and many more.
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