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Hands Off Operation Warp Speed
Townhall.com ^ | November 25, 2020 | Betsy McCaughy

Posted on 11/25/2020 1:17:55 PM PST by Kaslin

Joe Biden is fearmongering that "more people may die" because the Trump administration hasn't begun transitioning oversight over the COVID-19 vaccines to the Biden team. "There was a plan for 300 million doses to be available at the end of the year. What they're reporting now is 20 to 30 million doses available. Why? Where are the bottlenecks? "

A confused Biden mixed up the numbers. Dr. Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, predicts 20 million doses will be shipped out on Dec. 11 and 12, and immediately administered to health care workers and other high-risk populations, including the elderly, in all 50 states.

Every month thereafter, tens of millions more doses will be delivered according to a precision plan, with delivery sites already designated by each state's health department. By May, Slaoui predicts, enough Americans will have been vaccinated to create herd immunity, allowing the nation to get back to normal. That will be the most impressive public health triumph in a century.

Provided politics doesn't blow it up. Biden's advisers have dangerous ideas about who should get vaccinated first. That could spell trouble. Already, globalist groups like the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization are objecting that the U.S. has purchased hundreds of millions of doses, putting Americans ahead of residents of poor countries. WHO wants every country to get a vaccine supply based on its population, sending 2% to each country, and then ramping up to 20%. That would doom the U.S. to continued suffering because herd immunity requires about a 70% vaccination rate.

What's scary is that Biden's advisers buy into this globalist mentality. God help us if they interfere with Operation Warp Speed.

One of Biden's COVID-19 advisers, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, slams "vaccine nationalism," calling it unethical that the rich countries developing vaccines get first dibs. "Bad, bad" is Emanuel's response to the U.S. plan. Emanuel, a member of several WHO advisory groups, argues in the journal Science that vaccines should be reserved initially for the poorest countries and countries with younger populations first because vaccinating an elderly person saves fewer life years than vaccinating a younger person.

Emanuel is not the only Biden adviser with dangerous ideas. On Monday, Biden said he'll nominate globalist Antony Blinken to be secretary of state. Blinken decries Trump's principle of "America First" and is pushing to rejoin WHO immediately. Biden and Blinken are ignoring that WHO concealed the virus outbreak in Wuhan and shilled for the Chinese Communist Party, allowing the disease to spread and kill millions.

As for who gets vaccinated, the American public paid to be first. The Trump administration used taxpayer dollars to prepay for millions of doses of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna before they were approved. That reduced the development risk for those companies and ensured priority access. Several European countries took similar steps.

That's doesn't mean the rest of the world should not be helped. Astra Zeneca and Oxford University, which announced positive results for their vaccine on Monday, plans to distribute it across the third world at no profit, for as little as $3 to $5 a dose, and to enlist many manufacturers to do the same. The vaccine requires no refrigeration, a big plus for global distribution.

Meanwhile, the best Americans can hope for is that Biden and his political appointees don't meddle in this nation's vaccine distribution plan.

Too bad Biden's COVID-19 advisory board has other ideas. Dr. Celine Gounder, a New York University global health professor and Biden adviser, says Operation Warp Speed needs to be overhauled to put more emphasis on things other than vaccines, including testing and "providing political backing" to local governments to "support things that might be unpopular." Translation: shutdowns. That's crazy. Vaccines will make these draconian options unnecessary.

Though the Trump administration conceived and launched Operation Warp Speed, Slaoui explains that the vaccine rollout has been done totally "isolated from the (Trump) administration, from the political environment and political context." He added "no political interference, no bureaucracy, no red tape." He hopes that will continue after the Jan. 20 inauguration.

Responding to Biden's demagoguery about the transition delay costing lives, HHS Secretary Alex Azar reassured the nation on Sunday that "the career people" from the Defense Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention running Operation Warp Speed on Jan. 19 are going to be the same people on Jan. 21.

Message to Biden: Hands off this medical miracle.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; joebiden; opwarpspeed; trumpcovid; warpspeed

1 posted on 11/25/2020 1:17:55 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Joe Biden is fearmongering that "more people may die"

Please excuse me, but I am irate given the hearing in Gettysburg. Joe Biden's pedophile ass need to rot in prison until he dies a slow painful death. Right now he needs to STFU.

2 posted on 11/25/2020 1:24:14 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (The Republic is at a pivot point. Either you stand for freedom or die in slavery. )
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To: Kaslin
Hands Off Operation Warp Speed

China Joe and the Blow Ho want to delay it just long enough so that THEY can take credit.

Their idiot followers, along with reinforcement from the FAKE news, will reinforce that notion and it would be probably the ONLY positive accomplishment of their regime.

3 posted on 11/25/2020 1:24:25 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (A Deplorable behind enemy lines in the newly occupied socialist state of Georgia)
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To: Kaslin

Cuomo is interfering with the plan saying it has to be revised. Fauci already told him and the Ca gov...to back off. Cuomo is such an a**. But what he’s really looking for is “money” from the Fed Gov....and he said it out loud...We can’t distribute without money.


4 posted on 11/25/2020 1:29:02 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Never should have released the GSA funds.

Give them an inch, they want everything!!!


5 posted on 11/25/2020 1:34:33 PM PST by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: Kaslin

Where’s VP Pence? Just asking.


6 posted on 11/25/2020 1:41:04 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: Kaslin

NOBODY NEEDS TO DIE, STOP LYING!!!

The study is about Ivermectin and Hydroxochloroquine, BOTH are Effective but The Dewormer we give our Hors appears to be Much Better, and ANYONE can buy it at your local feed and tack store. It gives dosage amounts too, It’s $20 and comes in a Big Tube, probably 100 doses in a tube.

Efficacy and Safety of Ivermectin for Treatment and
prophylaxis of COVID-19 Pandemic

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-100956/v1/682247ca-ef49-4d68-aa3f-493a8fc9a056.pdf


7 posted on 11/25/2020 1:43:42 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: frogjerk
Where’s VP Pence? Just asking.

That's a good question. But I am still getting daily emails from him begging for money for the gop. Got news for him, the gop will never get another dime from me. Trump, sure. But only if none of it goes to the gop.
8 posted on 11/25/2020 1:51:00 PM PST by JoSixChip
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To: Kaslin
*objecting that the U.S. has purchased hundreds of millions of doses, putting Americans ahead of residents of poor countries.*

poor countries translated equals China

but let's not forget that these exact same ‘poor’ countries were the same ones who claimed racism as a reason to not participate in any trials, and insisted that white folk, as usual, be the guinea pigs for the 'white man's vaccine'.

9 posted on 11/25/2020 2:05:43 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Kaslin
The pipeline has enough vaccine and enough monoclonal antibodies (Regeneron) in it that by February every Covid death will in fact be someone’s fault.

If there is any problem of getting acceptance of the vaccine - and any problem of less than 100% efficacy of the vaccine, priority in distributing Regeneron dosage should go to people who have not declined an opportunity to be vaccinated.

Passing on the vaccine would then put you at risk of falling squarely in the category of a patient whose death was his own dumb fault.

Otherwise, supply of vaccine and Regeneron should be adequate to make responsibility for any further Covid deaths fall on the management of the distribution/administration of the vaccine(s) and of Regeneron.


10 posted on 11/25/2020 2:25:18 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: Kaslin

Does anyone know where family caregivers of very elderly folks fall in the Warp Speed plan?


11 posted on 11/25/2020 4:21:34 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Kaslin

Covid-19 “cases” vs Covid-19 deaths:

https://www.headlineoftheday.com/


12 posted on 11/25/2020 8:33:07 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (We flattened the heck out of that curve, didn’t we?)
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