Posted on 04/13/2021 10:36:16 AM PDT by lightman
President Donald Trump, the pioneer of Operation Warp Speed, is condemning the FDA's decision to temporarily pull the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from use after rare incidents of blood clotting. He's also accusing the agency of favoring Pfizer.
"The Biden Administration did a terrible disservice to people throughout the world by allowing the FDA and CDC to call a “pause” in the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The results of this vaccine have been extraordinary but now it’s reputation will be permanently challenged. The people who have already taken the vaccine will be up in arms, and perhaps all of this was done for politics or perhaps it’s the FDA’s love for Pfizer," Trump released in a statement Tuesday morning.
"The FDA, especially with long time bureaucrats within, has to be controlled. They should not be able to do such damage for possibly political reasons, or maybe because their friends at Pfizer have suggested it. They’ll do things like this to make themselves look important. Remember, it was the FDA working with Pfizer, who announced the vaccine approval two days after the 2020 Presidential Election. They didn’t like me very much because I pushed them extremely hard. But if I didn’t, you wouldn’t have a vaccine for 3-5 years, or maybe not at all. It takes them years to act! Do your testing, clean up the record, and get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine back online quickly. The only way we defeat the China Virus is with our great vaccines!" he continued.
The FDA made the decision early Tuesday morning, but officials say it is a recommendation not a mandate.
"As of April 12, more than 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen ) vaccine have been administered in the U.S. CDC and FDA are reviewing data involving six reported U.S. cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot in individuals after receiving the J&J vaccine. In these cases, a type of blood clot called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) was seen in combination with low levels of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia). All six cases occurred among women between the ages of 18 and 48, and symptoms occurred 6 to 13 days after vaccination. Treatment of this specific type of blood clot is different from the treatment that might typically be administered. Usually, an anticoagulant drug called heparin is used to treat blood clots. In this setting, administration of heparin may be dangerous, and alternative treatments need to be given," the FDA said in a statement. Recommended We Can See Why CBS News Executed That Media Hit Job on DeSantis Now Matt Vespa
"CDC will convene a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Wednesday to further review these cases and assess their potential significance. FDA will review that analysis as it also investigates these cases. Until that process is complete, we are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution. This is important, in part, to ensure that the health care provider community is aware of the potential for these adverse events and can plan for proper recognition and management due to the unique treatment required with this type of blood clot," the statement continues.
“Trump released a statement” That’s good he is finding ways to get his message out. How is he doing it?
Is Mr. Trump directly calling or emailing certain columnists?
A few weeks ago, I heard he now has an active website, but I heard not much more after that.
Maybe it was “Parler-ed” and torpedoed by Big Media.
Yes, I have an active imagination.
My thoughts too
This is political
All the vax have rare clotting issues
JnJ is the one many have been willing to accept
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3950275/posts
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/91813
We have reached the stage where we have Democrat vaccines and Republican vaccines. Can we get them by race and sex as well?
I can’t agree with Trump on this one.
Johnson and Johnson has been suspect for a few months now. More and more evidence is coming out that Johnson & Johnson is a bad vaccine. Trump should not have supported it by attacking Biden in this fashion.
“We have reached the stage where we have Democrat vaccines and Republican vaccines”
How about we reach the stage where there are no vaccines.
This was done to drag things out, and to steer people towards the mRNA “vaccines”.
We need to use the same tactics that they used during the Trump administration. We need to attack them for everything that they do or don’t do, whether it is good, bad or indifferent.
The Pfizer vaccine had similar issues, yet very little coverage, and no pause.
Add to that, Pfizer and Moderna use mRNA technology, and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses the more traditional virus-based technology, and I think something might be up with the globalists and their wanting to use mRNA technology over the traditional technology.
Yup, they want the mRNA vaccines. It's as if they are sabotaging the J&J vaccine.
Interesting how many people who Love President Trump but are still anti-vaxx nutcases (wait, that’s a redundancy).
I liked it better when the anti-science morons were on the left side, now even on here you see ostensible adults peeing in their panties over this alleged danger or that one in a million failure.
So would you call someone that has all of their vaccines up to date but are leary of getting an emergency use vaccine that is not approved by the FDA and are not in vulnerable group an anti-vaxx nutcase?
One in a million - someone has to win the COVID vaccine lottery I guess.
What is interesting is how many Trump supporters are willing to go along with the demands of Fauci and the Biden administration.
In the end I think Trump will regret the day he ordered Operation Warp Speed. It’s all political at this point. The fact that libs are hawking this thing like Jim Jones hawked his kool aid remedy for his problems should give us all pause.
Yeah maybe the vaccines will turn out to be fine. But the same people hawking climate change and gender science are pushing this vaccine on a mostly ignorant and compliant populace and that should give us all pause.
I think Trump worries about the wrong things. No people out there are keeping track of which vaccines were part of “operation warp speed” and which were not. And he’s worried about getting cred for the vaccine while also hiding that he got one and not encouraging his supporters to get one since they don’t like them
Your odds of winning the Covid lottery are a lot better.
I like Trump very much. And if I was buying a property, or something I’d value his advice. But his telling me a “vaccine” is safe is very low on the “is he correct?” scale.
This is the very first mRNA therapy ever used on humans. This is Moderna’s first product EVER. As recently as 2017 it was being compared to Theranos in mainstream publications.
In 2017 their last attempt at an mRNA vaccine was ended as too dangerous.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3488 (moderna does not publish for peer review)
https://www.thrillist.com/tech/nation/what-does-moderna-therapeutics-do-why-is-it-a-silicon-valley-secret (close parallels to Theranos)
https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/ (2017 Moderna mRNA Crigler-Najjar therapy could never achieve safe enough results to move to human testing)
And now, we have a “vaccine” developed in a month or so, only tested in animals for antibody production and immediate side effects) then pushed onto humans. It was pushed in a political panic, with big pushes from Biotech, given lawsuit protection, and now pushed on people in a rush.
Love Trump, but I wouldn’t go to him for DNA therapy advice.
Take it if you want, but I’ll forgo a dangerous experimental therapy, pushed by the most connected Biotech company, using their very first product, when they have no liability.
I trust none of the vaccines and wish Trump would leave the vax issue behind.
There is nothing wrong with skepticism at vaccines. We’re getting into science-worship now, someone throws on a lab coat and they’re the equivalent of a medieval theologian advising the royalty.
Think of it this way.
There is a brand new airline company. It is politically connected. They have invented a completely new and controversial kind of aircraft, complete with a new type of fuel. They are very secretive. Their first few plane tests resulted in crashes.
Now they say it’s been rushed into production about 10 times faster than any other airliner.
You gonna buy a ticket?
This is a close equivalent to Elon Musk asking if you want to ride on his Starship rocket in two weeks. Someday it might be cool. In two weeks you’d need to be insane.
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