Biden will invoke Defense Production Act to boost Covid vaccine production, advisor says

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: CNBC

President-elect Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act after he takes office next month to boost production of coronavirus vaccines, a member of his Covid-19 advisory team said Monday.

“You will see him invoking the Defense Production Act,” Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board, said during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “The idea there is to make sure the personal protective equipment, the test capacity and the raw materials for the vaccines are produced in adequate supply.”

The wartime production law, which allows the president to compel companies to prioritize manufacturing for national security, could help the U.S. secure components and specialized products that manufacturers need to produce the Covid vaccines. Biden’s team has been weighing whether to invoke the law for vaccine production, NBC News reported last week.

The New York Times reported last week that Pfizer, which manufactures one of the two Covid vaccines approved for emergency use in the U.S., began asking the Trump administration in September to help the pharmaceutical giant obtain some supplies needed for production but was disappointed by a lack of response.


Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/28/biden-will-invoke-defense-production-act-to-boost-covid-vaccine-production-advisor-says.html

[IronLionZion]

2. And cold storage transport

since that was the issue holding up Pfizer's vaccine distribution. America doesn't have enough trucks and freezers that get cold enough. American companies should be making them.

[ffr]

3. Now THIS is news! Every title on DU should be something about democrats acting.

Biden, Harris, and Pelosi have this! Now if we can just pick up two seats in Georgia, we can reverse this GOP mess!

[scarytomcat]

5. shouldn't we also be stepping up production of treatment drugs?

we got a lot of sick people that could use the anti-bodies treatment and other drugs what's his name got
we need equipment and supplies at the front lines

[AllyCat]

6. Gosh, this would put people back to work.

What on earth is he thinking? What will the stock market do now if people are working? What kind of sozhulism is this?

[durablend]

10. McConnell and company will have stern words about this n/t

[Botany]

7. At noon it will be 22 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 secosnds to go

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?p0=263&iso=20210120T12&msg=Time%20left%20until%20Trump%20leaves%20office

Can I hate that orange mother fucker anymore?

"The New York Times reported last week that Pfizer, which manufactures one of the two Covid vaccines approved for emergency use in the U.S., began asking the Trump administration in September to help the pharmaceutical giant obtain some supplies needed for production but was disappointed by a lack of response."

[iluvtennis]

20. YES!!!! nt

[Botany]

24. I look at that site every noon to see one more day...

.... roll by. Tomorrow @ noon it will be 21 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds.

[KS Toronado]

8. No response? after Pfizer asked for help to subdue a pandemic, and they claim warp speed.

[tavernier]

21. It's actually called Warped Speed.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. This is what a president is supposed to do Donny

Not whine and Tweet how unfair everything is.

[Grokenstein]

23. Dim Don wouldn't recognize leadership

if it knocked him to the ground and smashed in his skull with repeated blows from a truncheon.

[rocktivity]

11. Testing also has to be boosted

Fortunately, there's finally an accurate, painless, non-invasive saliva-based test:

https://yourhhrsnews.com/study-saliva-equals-nasal-swab-for-covid-test-accuracy/


rocktivity

[MizLibby]

14. Rock, if you had more testing....

well, you know, more cases, pretty stupid, huh???

[rocktivity]

16. I suppose that slowing the spread of the virus (as well as stopping it from mutating)

by detecting and properly isolating the infected and contagious is too high a price to pay...


rocktivity

[mainer]

12. And please call in national guard to train as vaccinators

We need more skilled hands on deck. They could set up mobile tents in school parking lots and move 'em through.

[SWBTATTReg]

13. And the only reason that rump and kushner didn't invoke this act is to yet again, make more and more

profit ... I wonder where trump and kushner are stashing the profits from their going to companies and demanding some sort of pay back, in order to not invoke the D. Prod. Act?

[IsItJustMe]

15. About fricken time!!! This should have been done at the get go!!!

But we know how the king rolls.

[LiberalLovinLug]

17. Don't give Trump any ideas!

I could totally see him finding this out, and invoking it himself, just to take away the political benefit it would be for Biden. Not because he really cared about the vaccine getting to Americans any sooner.

[tavernier]

22. Probably what Biden is hoping for.

That would save many more lives.
I doubt that Biden gives a shit who is ahead in trump’s scoring game.

[Initech]

18. This is how a real leader should treat this situation!

Unlike that other guy who told us to drink bleach and listen to doctors who float conspiracy theories about alien DNA and demon sex!

[cstanleytech]

19. Makes sense despite the disruption it will cause as this virus needs to be dealt with rather than

Trumps and the majority of Republican politicians practice of pretending everything is ok.