(11-20-2020, 01:28 PM)Rootilda Wrote:  I figured some others here might appreciate it.

It's very thoughtful of you to think of Sally, Mark & Maggot.

Quote:Fact Check: This Moderna /NIH vaccine is literally the one that President @realDonaldTrump partnered with Moderna to create on January 13, 2020... I repeat January 13^th, 2020. Just be happy. This is great news for America and for the world!

Quote:So what exactly was Ivanka talking about? It turns out that Moderna did get started on its COVID vaccine on January 13, two days after China released the virus’ genetic sequence. A document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission explains that on that date, the company’s researchers “finalized the sequence for the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine” and it “mobilized toward clinical manufacture.” That step was taken in collaboration with the Vaccine Research Center, which is under the National Institutes for Health (NIH). Even if Trump wasn’t personally involved, can’t he take credit for his administration’s role in this moment?

It’s not that simple. Moderna’s partnership with the feds to develop messenger RNA technology, which its coronavirus vaccine is based on, began long before the novel coronavirus flared up. The Pentagon funded the company’s mRNA research in 2013, and the federal government gave it $125 million to develop a mRNA-based Zika vaccine in 2016. Its COVID-related work on January 13 appears to have been completed under an already existing research agreement with the NIH, according to a review by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

In short, Trump didn’t swoop in to launch the Moderna-NIH COVID vaccine partnership. Rather, his administration piggybacked on an ongoing collaboration whose initial agreements were signed in—checking the fine print—November 2015. Maybe Ivanka should have added, “Thanks, Obama.”

https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/11/ivanka-trump-moderna-vaccine-trump/

(11-20-2020, 09:00 PM)Carsman Wrote: Anybody watch Donny today around 2:40 pm, talking about his push back against big Pharma's price gouging the American people on their prescription drugs? Americans are currently paying up to "5" times more than what other countries citizens are paying for the exact same drugs from the exact same drug companies! He claims he put an end to that! I hope he did.

He also mentioned his Warp Speed program on getting a viable Covid-19 vaccine being made available so quickly, which he did. Sadly he did drop the ball in the beginning letting it get out of hand, but when realized, he created the Warp Speed program, pulling out all the stops! And vaccine was made in Warp Speed.

As said before, some of the things he did/does, do have merit, unfortunately, with his despicable personality, and his nacorssistic behaviour, he sucks as a Human being!(IMO)