weatheriscool wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 4:51 pm
But yet more people died under Biden and Trump did more to develop the vaccine. You just can't give any credit.
But yet more people died under Biden and Trump did more to develop the vaccine. You just can't give any credit.
While Operation warp speed under Trump may have facilitated vaccine distribution, it is worth noting that Pfizer developed the vaccine through private efforts:
Pfizer has distanced itself from Mr. Trump and Operation Warp Speed. In an interview on Sunday, Kathrin Jansen, a senior vice president and the head of vaccine research and development at Pfizer, said, “We were never part of the Warp Speed,” adding, “we have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone.”
Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/hea ... speed.html
In a November 2021
Washington Post article a comparison was made between Trump and Biden:
The comparison between 2020 and 2021 is also inapt in that Trump was still president in early 2021, and the effects of choices made before Biden took over (such as Trump not really encouraging people to get vaccinated) lingered into Biden’s early presidency. The biggest wave of the coronavirus in this country, in fact, peaked around the exact time Biden was inaugurated on Jan. 20. Inheriting a trendline that showed 3,000 deaths per day, as Biden did, is a recipe for inflating your numbers.
(To a significant degree, that wave was outside Trump’s control, of course; most places in the world were experiencing the worst wave of the virus at the time.)
Even if we assumed all things were equal, though, the comparison still struggles.
Both presidents presided over about 10 months of the pandemic. The World Health Organization declared that label on March 11, meaning Trump was president for a little more than 10 months of the formally declared pandemic. Biden has now passed a little more than 10 months in office as well.
Thus far, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biden has presided over about 353,000 deaths in a little over 10 months, compared to about 425,000 for Trump in his final 10-plus months. So there have still been fewer deaths under Biden than under Trump, in a similar time period.
Since Biden took over, the world as a whole has seen more deaths in his 10 months (3.07 million) than the preceding 10 months (2.14 million), but the United States has seen fewer. In Biden’s 10-plus months, the United States has accounted for less than 12 percent of worldwide deaths, which is down from 19.9 percent under Trump. That’s a decline of more than 40 percent in our proportion of the worldwide death rate.
Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politic ... vid-deaths
If the numbers for Biden are higher, it is only because he has been president for a longer period in which the epidemic has been active. As my previous citation indicated, Trump also helped to sabotage efforts to contain the epidemic through supporting people who opposed mask mandates, pushing phony cures, etc.
If others want to argue on behalf of Trump, be my guest. That is not my job or anything to which I wish to lend my energy. Trump receives enough help from billionaire contributors,
Fox News, etc. None of which have been fair or balanced. (Although
Fox News does show signs of finally having had enough of Trump)
Don't mourn, organize.
-Joe Hill