Washington (AP) President Donald Trump started the Warp Speed Operation in the car of Covid-19 pandemic, an effort to save tens of million from human lives. During a cabinet meeting last week, he compared it with “one of the greatest achievements of all time”.
As a proud Trump at the table at the table, the secretary for health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who put on Thursday at a hearing of the congress on Thursday to restrict access to vaccines, including the shots that were still highly advertised by his boss, which were advertised by his boss.
The three -hour hearing revealed a strange dichotomy: One of Trump’s most universal success in his first term remains the Operation Warp Speed, but his hand -picked health chairman and a growing squad of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” fans are suspicious of the very mRNA vaccine technology that the president used.
The praise of these unprecedented efforts to find a vaccine for Covid-19 came from Democrats on Thursday to highlight this gap.
Senator Maggie Hassan, Dn.H., Described Operation Warp Speed ”A monumental performance”. Senator Raphael Warnock, D-GA, said Kennedy, he was a health risk and said Trump: “Anyone who has been firing the Operation Warp Speed should fire him. The independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who crouches with Democrats, said he did not agree, but quoted Trump’s comments on the president of the Covid-19 vaccine and said that the scientific community was behind him.
The Republicans also criticized Kennedy’s approach to vaccines.
Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La., A doctor whose coordination for Kennedy ensured his close confirmation, found that the overarching success of the Operation Warp speed died at a time when thousands of people per day died of Covid-19, the companies were closed and a enormous part of everyday life was at a standstill.
“Others said it couldn’t happen. We saved millions of life worldwide. Tillion dollars. We have opened the economy again. An incredible achievement,” said Cassidy when he asked Kennedy. “Do you agree that the President deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?”
When Kennedy replied: “absolutely, senator”, sharpened cassidy pointed.
He urged Kennedy to denounce the vaccine in the past, to complain to pharmaceutical manufacturers and the occupation of vacancies in a powerful advisory committee in the vaccine with experts who testified against the drug makers, and suggested that they conflict.
“It only seems inconsistent that they would agree with me that the president deserves an enormous loan ratio,” replied Cassidy.
Hassan read from a contribution in June 2024 to X, in which Kennedy wrote that Trump has “a weakness for swamp creatures, especially for corporate monopolies, their lobbyists and their money” and described the vaccine surgery under “The most devastating effects of the weakness of President Trump, but not the only one”.
“If you agree to President Trump that the vaccine saved millions of life, why did you act behind closed doors to overwrite scientists and to limit the freedom of parents to choose the Covid vaccine for their children?” Asked Hassan.
Kennedy said to Hassan that she “only done things”.
Restriction of vaccine access
Under Kennedy, however, the US supervisory authorities have restricted the availability of COVID 19 vaccines for many Americans.
In the past month, the US supervisory authorities approved updated COVID 19 shots, but their employ for many Americans-restricted and one of the two vaccines available for petite children. The modern restrictions are a break from the previous US policy, which recommended an annual Covid 19 shot for all Americans from 6 months and upwards, which triggered the confusion and frustration of some Americans, including the parents who are interested in the vaccination of robust children.
Many pharmacies are not ready or legally excluded to give vaccines outside of the uses from the Food and Drug Administration and other federal authorities.
Several administrative officers came to Kennedy’s defense against vaccines. Mehmet OZ, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said what Kennedy wants, is “integrity and honesty” in the review process in the vaccine.
“As usual, Democrats are intellectually dishonest to try and fail a wedge between President Trump and Secretary Kennedy,” said the spokesman for the White House, Kush Desai, on Thursday. “Instead of playing politics and trying to get stupid sound engravings, the Democrats should spend more time with the secretary Kennedy and the rest of the government to make America well again.”
The White House on Thursday did not address Cassidy’s criticism directly. After he was later asked about Kennedy’s testimony, Trump said that he did not see, but Kennedy means “very good” and he likes the fact that Kennedy is different.
But the Republican in Louisiana was not the only one who conjured Kennedy about vaccines.
“If we want to make America well again, we cannot allow public health to undermine,” said the majority of the Senate majority John Barrasso von Wyoming, a convinced ally of Trump, to Kennedy. “I’m a doctor. Work vaccines.”
In the meantime, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis had a variety of questions for Kennedy, including the question of how he really feels about Operation Warp Speed, and said he would accept Kennedy’s answers in writing later.
Trumps changing messages
When asked at the beginning of August after Kennedy’s cancellation of the MRNA contracts, Trump said that the efforts were “a long time ago and we are on others”, but he would continue to talk about it.
“Operation Warp Speed was whether they are Republican or Democrat, one of the most incredible things that have ever been done in this country,” said Trump. “Efficiency, the way it was done, the distribution, everything from it, was amazing.”
But Trump himself was contradictory in his attitude towards vaccines.
In a social media post this week, he said that companies were responsible for the recent turbulence in the centers for the control and prevention of diseases because they were not crystal clear to science behind the shots. He sometimes assumed discredited theories that vaccines can cause autism. Trump has also resisted wild vaccination mandates and with such guidelines with such guidelines.
The anti-vaccination movement in Trump’s party has been growing since the early days of the vaccine. Trump himself was booed at an event in December 2021 when he revealed that he had received the Covid 19 booster.
He tried in vain to bring his supporters back to the Operation Warp speed and to remind them of what had been achieved.
“Look, we have done something historical. We saved ten million of life worldwide. We together, we all – not me, we – we did a vaccine, three vaccines and enormous therapeutic agents,” said Trump. “That would go far beyond what it is. Take it. Take it.
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Kinnard reported Chapin, the authors of SC -Associated Press, Thomas Beaumont in the Moines, Iowa, Lauran Neergaard in Washington, and Jill Colvin and Ali Swenson in New York contributed to this report.
