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RE: Nearly 100,000 in U.S. Died from Coronavirus in Biden’s* First Month in Office
Quote:The White House blamed former President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday for the 100,000 coronavirus deaths after President Joe Biden took office.
Psaki blamed the Trump administration for failing to order more vaccines from manufacturers and failing to federally organize vaccinators to distribute the shots.
“You can always look back and say, ‘We wish we would have done this better, we wish the storm wouldn’t have come,’” Psaki said. “But our focus is on building out of the hole that we inherited.” Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and other members of the administration have repeatedly and falsely claimed that Trump did not have a plan to distribute the vaccines.
“My predecessor, as my mother would say, God love him, failed to order enough vaccines, failed to mobilize the effort to administer the shots, failed to set up vaccine centers. That changed the moment we took office,” Biden claimed falsely during a speech on Friday at a Pfizer manufacturing plant.
But Trump worked with states to distribute the vaccines across the country after working with his Operation Warp Speed team to develop the vaccines in record time.
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) outlined the distribution plan for the vaccines in September 2020.
In December, HHS also announced the purchase of an additional 100 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, after already purchasing 100 million doses with the option of an additional 400 million. The Trump administration also announced the purchase of 200 million doses of the Moderna vaccine in December with the option to acquire an additional 300 million doses.
Biden plans to publicly acknowledge the 500,000 deaths from the virus at a speech on Monday night and hold a memorial ceremony.
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Quote:President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci declared Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the United States had “done worse than most any other country” in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “Five hundred thousand Americans, families grieving all across the country. Did this have to be?”
Fauci said, “Well, certainly some of it, but not this bad, George. I believe that if you look back historically, we’ve done worse than most any other country, and we’re a highly developed rich country.”
He continued, “There were things back then, if you go back and think about what you might have done, the kind of disparate responses of different states rather than having a unified approach. But it’s so tough to go back and try to do a metaphorical autopsy on how things went. It was just bad. It is bad now.”
He added, “I think these numbers are so stunning. George, remember back in the late winter and early spring of 2020 when we were saying we could get as high as 240,000 and people were thinking, we were being hyperbolic about it and here we are with 500,000 deaths, just a stunning figure. The only thing that I would just encourage all of us is that rather than looking back and saying what the heck happened here, just saying, now let’s just go forward and be completely committed as a unified country to just go at this together. This is a common enemy.”
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Quote:National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins contradicted the Biden Administration on Sunday when he said the Trump Administration deserves credit for the “breathtaking” coronavirus vaccine development.
“The Operation Warp Speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to [former HHS Secretary Alex Azar], was a[n] effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary. And it was thought about as a Manhattan Project,” Collins said.
Collins also noted vaccines “got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this virus is at least five years faster than it’s ever been before.”
This comes after President Joe Biden said at a CNN town hall on February 16 that “It’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office, but a vaccinator. How do you get the vaccine into someone’s arm?” Biden personally received the vaccine before Trump left office.
During a February 19 visit to the Pfizer Kalamazoo Manufacturing Site, Biden falsely claimed, “Just over four weeks ago, America had no real plan to vaccinate most of the country.”
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