https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/07/tru...fda-like-him-vaccine-coming-very-shortly.htmlSame shyt. Donald Trump didn't make the vaccine--why even bring him up? My point is this shyt is weirdly political.
The FDA on Tuesday published new guidance for vaccine manufacturers that said they need to provide at least two months of follow-up safety data after vaccinating trial participants to apply for emergency use authorization. That makes the authorization of a vaccine before the Nov. 3 presidential electionhighly unlikely.
“We’re going to have a great vaccine very, very shortly. I think we should have it before the election, but frankly the politics gets involved and that’s OK. They want to play their games,” Trump said in a video posted on Twitter. “The FDA has acted as quickly as they’ve ever acted in history. ... No president’s ever pushed them like I’ve pushed them either, to be honest with you.”
He added that “the FDA is approving things in a matter of weeks that used to take a matter of years.”
After the FDA published its new guidance on emergency approvals for vaccine manufacturers, Trump tweeted that it was a “another political hit job!”
Trump has publicly pressured FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn and other agency officials in the past. Early in the pandemic, Trump called for the emergency authorization of the use of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. Prescriptions for the 60-year-old medication surged 2,000% in March, but later studies found that it was actually hastening death in some patients, and the FDA pulled its emergency authorization in June.
More recently, the president publicly criticized Hahn and called for him to quickly authorize convalescent plasma for the treatment of Covid-19. Some scientists said that while the treatment appeared safe, the country would have been better served by not authorizing it and instead studying it more rigorously in large clinical trials.
Trump Says Vaccine Will Be Ready In As Little As ‘Four Weeks’ — Scientists Say That’s Aggressive
Trump was brought up because he was stating that the vaccine would be out before the election and was publicly pressuring agencies to get it done, even when scientists were giving him theConcerns that the Trump administration will try to play politics with a Covid-19 vaccine have grown since the Centers for Disease Control recently notified states to be ready to distribute a vaccine by November 1, just two days before the election.
Trump administration officials have since worked to downplay those concerns — and last week, nine major drug companies signed a pledge to “stand with science” — not politics — when it comes to a vaccine.
But instead of minimizing fears his administration will make a political bet on a vaccine, Trump has repeatedly made aggressive predictions, and even spoken about the timing for a treatment in the context of the election, saying the U.S. may have a vaccine before a “very special date,” referring to Election Day.

that's why this country is doomed and is generally getting worse every day.
The Trump administration was fukking horrible and we still haven't learned.


