{"id":4701,"date":"2021-03-16T15:38:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:38:47","slug":"hannity-says-biden-should-call-trump-and-thank-him-for-his-covid-19-response-thats-a-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4701","title":{"rendered":"Hannity says Biden should call Trump and thank him for his Covid-19 response. That\u2019s a stretch."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“While Trump\u2019s Operation Warp Speed program provided incentives for private companies to speed vaccine development and did directly help Moderna develop an effective vaccine, it\u2019s not necessarily the case that vaccines wouldn\u2019t be available today had it not been for Trump. The first FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine was developed by Pfizer last year without any direct help<\/a> from the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be clear \u2014 Trump deserves some credit for the fact that multiple vaccines were developed so quickly. As my colleague Dylan Scott reported<\/a> last October, the federal government\u2019s multibillion-dollar investment in helping companies like Moderna and Johnson & Johnson develop vaccines no doubt helped the country get to a point where there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel. Biden has acknowledged this, saying<\/a> in December that \u201cI think that the [Trump] administration deserves some credit, getting this [vaccine effort] off the ground, Operation Warp Speed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But vaccines don\u2019t do much good if there\u2019s no plan to get them into arms, and this is where Trump really fell short. As was the case when the US struggled to ramp up coronavirus testing infrastructure in the early days of the pandemic, the Trump administration\u2019s plan for vaccine distribution did little more than pass the buck to under-resourced states<\/a>. Trump\u2019s failure to plan for the \u201clast mile<\/a>\u201d resulted in episodes where unused vaccines were thrown out in the weeks before Biden took office.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/3\/12\/22327201\/biden-primetime-coronavirus-speech-fox-news-coverage-tucker-carlson-sean-hannity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“While Trump\u2019s Operation Warp Speed program provided incentives for private companies to speed vaccine development and did directly help Moderna develop an effective vaccine, it\u2019s not necessarily the case that vaccines wouldn\u2019t be available today had it not been for Trump. The first FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine was developed by Pfizer last year without any direct help from the federal government.<\/p>\n

To be clear \u2014 Trump deserves some credit for the fact that multiple vaccines were developed so quickly. As my colleague Dylan Scott reported last October, the federal government\u2019s multibillion-dollar investment in helping companies like Moderna and Johnson & Johnson develop vaccines no doubt helped the country get to a point where there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel. Biden has acknowledged this, saying in December that \u201cI think that the [Trump] administration deserves some credit, getting this [vaccine effort] off the ground, Operation Warp Speed.\u201d<\/p>\n

But vaccines don\u2019t do much good if there\u2019s no plan to get them into arms, and this is where Trump really fell short. As was the case when the US struggled to ramp up coronavirus testing infrastructure in the early days of the pandemic, the Trump administration\u2019s plan for vaccine distribution did little more than pass the buck to under-resourced states. Trump\u2019s failure to plan for the \u201clast mile\u201d resulted in episodes where unused vaccines were thrown out in the weeks before Biden took office.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,221,780],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4702,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}