US elections: Trump accuses Pfizer of delaying announcement on Covid vaccine to deny him a win

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Scroll/in


Donald Trump also said the US Food and Drug Administration should have approved the vaccine earlier ‘not for political purposes, but for saving lives’.

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US President Donald Trump. | Mandel Ngan/ AFP

Incumbent United States President Donald Trump on Monday accused the US Food and Drug Administration and drug manufacturer Pfizer of withholding the announcement on Covid-19 vaccine ahead of the presidential elections in the country to deny him a “vaccine win”.

His comments came after Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech on Monday announced that their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90% effective in phase three clinical trials.

In a series of tweets, Trump claimed that the had always maintained “Pfizer and the others would only announce a vaccine after the election” and that the US Food and Drug Administration “should have announced it earlier, not for political purposes, but for saving lives.”

He also claimed that the vaccine would not have been available “for another four years”, “if Joe Biden were President”.

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[still_one]

1. Another lie to trump's repertoire of lies

[wishstar]

2. I do love the timing of the announcement on same day Biden rolled out his Covid taskforce

and the way Pfizer was quick to strongly push back and emphasize they were apolitical and took no federal funds and debunked Pence's attempt to claim WH credit.

[Sherman A1]

19. It did have a nice touch to it

[pfitz59]

3. Lie lie lie blah blah blah

[truthisfreedom]

4. Pfizer didn't accept any "Operation Warp Speed" money, and in fact, began work before "Warp" existed

https://fortune.com/2020/11/09/pfizer-vaccine-funding-warp-speed-germany/

“I wanted to liberate our scientists from any bureaucracy,” Bourla said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sept. 16. “When you get money from someone, that always comes with strings. They want to see how we are growing to progress, what types of moves you are going to do. They want reports. I didn’t want to have any of that.”

“Basically I gave them an open checkbook so that they can worry only about scientific challenges, not anything else. And also, I wanted to keep Pfizer out of politics, by the way,” Bourla added.

[OhioTim]

5. Ha, Ha

Now Trump cares about saving lives. How about the tens of thousands of deaths he is responsible for?

The Trump Death Clock [link:https://trumpdeathclock.com/|

[Aussie105]

6. Trump has made so many statements about COVID and guesses about a vaccine.

Some were bound to be near the mark.

But why would anyone think he could claim any of that guesswork as some sort of personal victory, if one point he made amongst many, turned out to be true?

Pfizer has made it quite clear that their work was not funded by Trump, nor was it done to any timeline paralleling the election.

What next?
Trump predicts the Sun will come up tomorrow?
And it happens, so the Confused Deplorables take that as a Divine sign of the Infallibility of their Leader?

[George II]

7. When was saving lives a concern of his?

[NurseJackie]

16. Never.

[Grokenstein]

8. That's right, Dim Don, everything's a conspiracy against you.

That's how it looks when you constantly conspire against everyone else.

Sign on the door of my local Walgreens: "COVID VACCINE NOT YET AVAILABLE"

[Mc Mike]

9. 'The whole world is against me', tRump blubbered.

[moreland01]

10. And if they did actually hold the news until after the election?

Good! It wouldn't have changed the outcome or timing of us getting vaccinated and it may have impacted the election.

Now, the Governor of Utah withholding a state-wide mask mandate until after the election . . . not cool at all! That actually may have gotten people killed. You don't hear trump complaining about that.

[still_one]

11. Pfizer first learned of the results on Sunday by the independent agency which unblinded the

results only when the study reached a certain number of COVID cases.

This was not preplanned as the paranoid sociopaths in the WH suggest

In addition, Pfizer did not take any funds from the government on this, and were not part of project warp speed. Trump trying to claim credit for this is just another lie from his deplorable reign

January 20th cannot come soon enough

[mdbl]

12. Ever notice those that lie, cheat and steal--

are the most paranoid it's happening to them?

[Vinca]

13. I don't believe they did, but so what if that's exactly what they did do?

They owe Trump nothing and despite Pence emerging from under mother's skirt to say otherwise, they did not receive money from this government to develop a vaccine.

[Mr. Ected]

14. Maybe they didn't want Trump to steal credit when none was due

Which is exactly what they did when the announcement was made.

Sounds like Pfizer thought this through and made the correct decision.

[LittleGirl]

15. And what if they did delay it ?

What the hell is 45 going to do? Fire them?
Ha ha ha ha

[myohmy2]

17. "Trump accuses Pfizer of delaying announcement..."

...if true, thank you Pfizer...

...

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Trump lives in a mental castle called

Whine-A-Lot

[Kid Berwyn]

20. Good.

What’s his problem?

[robbob]

21. How does announcing a vaccine which is still many months away from being ready

to distribute save lives, Donald? Oh yeah, just another lie.

[orangecrush]

22. Stay classy

Asshole.

[MissMillie]

23. There's still more to do

We get that it has a high effectiveness rating, but we still need to know about side effects and other safety concerns.

[olddad65]

24. But wait a minute, I thought he claims he did win.

[Firestorm49]

25. What a dope! His actions are reprehensible! And the Republican Party of cohorts? Absurd!

[Firestorm49]

26. ".....but for saving lives." Seriously? He doesn't give a shit about you. Only himself.

And the real humor in all of this is that he thinks people will believe him, when in fact, it’s so absurd that it’s laughable.

[Paladin]

27. trump, interested in saving lives?

Yeah, sure. We've got him on tape with Bob Woodward, saying different. And Pfizer has made it abundantly clear that trump didn't have jack shit to do with their research and development efforts.

I am so pleased that he'll take the timing of Pfizer's vaccine announcement to his grave as a source of unending frustration. I look forward to having that needle jammed in my arm (or any other location) in the not-too-distant future---trump can rest assured that I'll be thinking of his miserable ass when that happens. Fucking loser.

[Wolf Frankula]

29. How long before he says the vaccine causes Jenny McCarthy

and you should inject bleach instead?

Wolf