Trump Admin Buys Extra 100 Mil Vaccine Doses After Missing Out On Pfizer Purchase | Talking Points Memo

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The Trump administration has bought an additional 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from Moderna, officials announced on Friday, after reports emerged that it missed an opportunity to buy tens of millions of doses from Pfizer.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1348883
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Which is funny because probably a majority of Trump’s supporters won’t even get the vaccine

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In the meantime

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So basically it’s an admission that he fucked up?

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Gee, what a surprise that Moderna gets a massive boost in profits.

Gonna love what the prosecutors find on them and the administration and who’s paying off whom.

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Always a season late and 100 million doses short.

That’s why "You’re Fired"

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It still isn’t enough.

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At twice the previous price, no doubt…

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or that the Trump fam has a financial interest in Moderna
or both

of course Trump has repeatedly fucked up on covid from the get-go

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You begin to see the art of the deal. The man really is a stable genius.

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We can only hope. Keep the vaccine for those that aren’t trying to destroy the country.

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I wonder if the deal was struck before or after GSK/Sanofi announced their vaccine would be delayed.

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Thanks, Obama.

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I wonder if he (US) paid premium prices since he screwed up the ‘initial’ deal.

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I’m looking at the Johnson & Johnson vacccine- If all goes well it will be approved in February and it will only require one shot not two plus doesn’t have to be stored at -80 Celsius.

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You mean “we” not “he”, right?

And your scenario would fit his MO to a T(rump)

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The Trump administration has bought an additional 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from Moderna

To be delivered when?

(much farther down the article) The Trump administration said that Moderna would finish supplying the additional 100 million doses by the end of June.

In total, the Trump administration has now procured enough doses to inoculate 150 million Americans against the deadly virus

No they fucking well haven’t. Promises of June delivery is not completed procurement.

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Wait until they learn that the Pfizer vaccine was developed by a company founded by muslims.

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What was the cost?

The Trump administration said that Moderna would finish supplying the additional 100 million doses by the end of June.

Quite the delay but better than nothing. 300 million doses total means 150 million can be vaccinated, there are about 210 million people over the age of 18 in the US so that should cover all the people who are willing to get vaccinated by late 2021 except children (the little super spreaders that they are).

Lets just hope Trump hasn’t screwed up the paper work.

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Or that the existing vaccine stock isn’t “diverted” by federal thugs like PPE deliveries were. 40 more days.

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