Washington (AP) President Donald Trump was celebrated as a “medical miracle”. The mRNA vaccines developed to combat fatal Covid 19 pandemic in 2020.
Now his health minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stops the progress of vaccine technology. Kennedy announced on Tuesday that the Federal Government terminates MRNA research development contracts worth $ 500 million and put an end to the US hopes of vaccine technology to prevent future pandemics, treat cancer or prevent flu views.
It is a pointed pivot point of how Trump and Top officials described the technology during his first term.
Here is a look at what Trump and some of his closest consultants said about MRNA vaccines that were attributed to pandemic five years ago.
Robert Redfield, Trump’s director of the Centers for Disease Control
“A COVID-19 vaccine is what the Americans bring back to normal everyday life,” said Redfield in a statement on September 16, 2020.
The Americans still pulled face masks as one of the few ways to protect themselves from a virus that had killed almost 200,000 in just over six months. Redfield promised that the novel vaccines that were first developed with MRNA technology would offer a return to normality.
Trump wanted to make sure that bids did not get a loan
“Don’t let Joe Biden recognize the vaccines … Because the vaccines I were and I pressed people harder than ever before. Trump said on November 26, 2020 during a press conference in the White House.
Weeks earlier, Trump had lost the election in a bitter race against Democrat Joe Biden. When the Republican dealt with Washington and continued to plan the introduction of the Covid 19 vaccines, he recalled reporter that he was supervising the development of the novel shots.
“You say it’s a miracle and I think that’s true,” said Trump on December 8, 2020 during a speech in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The event celebrated “Operation Warp Speed”, the project financed by the government, which accelerated the development of vaccine with pharmaceutical companies. Trump promoted the shots when the government was preparing to offer them health workers at the forefront.
Trump’s first health secretary of Trump, Alex Azar,
“It is clear that many Americans learn that these vaccines are safe and extremely effective,” said Azar on December 16, 2020 at a press conference.
The government sent MRNA vaccines in states and prepared to distribute them to the masses. Azar found that a huge majority of American sound wanted to receive surveys between 70% and 80% of novel COVID 19 vaccines that would be available to the public in the coming months.
General Gusave Perna, Chief Operating Officer from Trump for the Pandemic reaction
“It takes between five and ten years to bring a vaccine onto the street. Look what we did. Well, this is due to the great work of the scientists who had carried out the research on MRNA vaccines and others because the industry worked on it.
In an interview, Perna reflected on his time when the “Operation Warp Speed” was monitored, the MRNA technology with the ability of the government to shoot in weapons only months after pandemic to claim life in the United States in 2020.
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“Start because we saved tens of millions of lives.
The daily deaths of Covid-19 had dropped to 1,500 compared to 3,000 compared to the previous year after the Americans received their first doses of the mRNA vaccines.
Trump revealed O’Reilly and the audience that he had just got a Covid 19 booster.
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