Azar Took Swipe At Pfizer Before Firm Said It Was Waiting For Orders On Vaccine Distribution | Talking Points Memo

More than a dozen states are now expecting far fewer doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine next week, with no explanation from the Trump administration for why the shipments have been cut.


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Shorter Azar: “We fucked up entirely, but I see it’s almost Christmas, and I’ve only got four weeks left, so I’m just going to point fingers at other people until I’m gone anyway.”

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I know it’s a crazy idea, but I think Azar is lying.

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Obama’s fault. And Hillary’s…

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It looks like their attempt to sabotage the Biden administration has come a few weeks early, probably due to their incompetence. And, it’s a poor idea to blame the people who are bringing the lifesaving vaccine for your faulty plan, that makes it more likely they will talk about how great it is to have the new sheriff in town who is easy to work with.

Five more weeks, we just have to make it five more weeks to have a government we can trust again.

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And Jimmy Carter’s. If he hadn’t given the Panama Canal to the Chinese Communists, none of this would have happened!

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Ahhhhhhhhh…the ‘party of personal responsibility’ strikes again. They screwed up the ‘order’ for vaccine and they ‘let’ the Russians in to hack us. Health and safety…and they couldn’t even do that.

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Leave it to the Trump Aministration to f*** up even getting life-saving medicine to people.

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How quaint. A leader of a country admitting they totally screwed up their COVID response.

It’ll never happen here…

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And is it only blue states that are seeing their shipments cut??

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What a ginormous fustercluck.

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Lack of a plan is what happened. Azar knows it but lies and blames Pfizer. Who would’ve thought something could go wrong at this time? Good lord.

WA State’s next shipment is being reduced by 40%.

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No, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, and Florida are getting reduced shipments.

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Jeepers, I thought Donnie and all of his minions weren’t Socialists…

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Since no one in this mess has credibility (this administration and its functionaries least of all,) this’ll have to wait for investigations onto the totally fucked up response to this pandemic for reliable clarification.

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Laying the groundwork to relentlessly demagogue every death starting at 12:01 pm January 20.

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TL;DR version, from Azar to Pfizer: “You don’t ever question us publicly! You don’t even think about disputing us! You take all the fucking blame and praise this Administration for allowing you to EXIST! That’s how the Free Market works!”

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Sounds to me like Trump isn’t getting the kickback from Pfizer that he expects so he’s trying to pressure them.

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This is all about Trum p trying to fuck Pfizer because of their rollout schedule and the election.

Shoot a man on 5th Ave and MAGA would not care = stall vaccine and kill 25,000 and MAGA would not care.

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