Vaccine Officials Contradict Azar On When It Will Be Available To Wider Public | Talking Points Memo

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has been offering a rosy timeframe for when the COVID-19 vaccine will be widely available, but other officials working on the Pentagon-led effort to speed the virus to the public are now presenting a less optimistic forecast.


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Ugh. These incompetent, lying – dare I say fuckers – can’t leave government fast enough.

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Well, surprise, surprise, another Trump toadie clusterfuck!! The only thing you can count on Trump’s appointees is that they take their lessons on lying from him. We probably won’t know the real situation with the vaccines until the end of January. Keep your masks and hand sanitizers handy folks, we have another year before most of this is behind us.

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Warp speed?

Looks like low-grade impulse power to me.

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Hey, discobot -

You may want to relook your article summary:

Spreading the virus to the public was HHS’ job. The Pentagon is handling vaccine distribution.

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“Pentagon-led effort to speed the virus to the public are now presenting a less optimistic forecast”

Please correct this, not even I think they are trying to “speed the virus” to us.

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I’m sure Azar’s rosy projections are based on:

  • Maximum production rates and shipping speeds.
  • No delays in either.
  • The next two vaccines set for emergency authorizations early next year getting it,
  • And, again, no delays for those.

In short, Azar continues the Trumplandia tradition of living in an alternate reality.

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Cults do tend to struggle with the truth…

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I also think that the rosy picture is meant to raise the bar to an impossible level for Biden. In other words, they are planning to say: “see? we would have covered everybody but the end of February, it’s the dems who are screwing up everything!”

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Shocked-face-1

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Yep, operation warped speed has at it again.

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lol still stuck on the herd immunity agreement.
nobody click update.

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I’m no Einstein, but at the advertised 20M people vaccinated (w/2 doses) per month, than means it’ll be approx. 16 months before all Americans have a chance to be protected, at least until additional vaccines or suppliers are approved. They’re painting a rosy picture that even their own estimates don’t support.

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OT, but

pathetic…this fucking coward finally found a way to give Trump what he wants and you can bet the “study” will turn up more than 12K bad signatures…

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Speaking of warp speed; the accelerated cost of the Rump’s ventilators vs those the Obama administration were planning to purchase in case of a pandemic.

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Big surprise, Azar is a lying rat bastard.

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Follow the money.

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Biden will still be president.

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there building it up to the best rosy picture they can paint so trump can have all the credit he thinks he deserves no matter the progress or failures.
then Biden will be to blame for all the people who have yet to be vaccinated or died.
Trump will keep us all informed for months to come.

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