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Trump and his campaign don’t care about having an actual vaccine that works, they only want an announcement that they can make trumpeting that he has solved the problem and saved America. Considering how much they lie, it’s irrelevant what the scientists say. We’ve already see this, Trump and his minions have been calling Regeneron a “cure”, when it is nothing of the sort. Now that vaccine studies have been pausing and running slow, they will come up with something, anything, and spew it out there at the last minute, hoping to fool enough people that “Trump has saved America from COVID!” and get him a few votes.
It’s unlikely to work…people are voting early in droves, if that continues through until election day then no lies are going to matter.
Like I said on the thread about the white house campaign ad misusing and misquoting Fauci, this is why he should not resign. We need him in this vaccine approval gatekeeping role. If he is replaced, it is guaranteed the replacement will be a complicit political hack.
Nothing unusual about this arrangement given the circumstances and the amount of federal funds that have been invested. Central DSMBs are not that rare in cooperative research. They can help ensure that all sites are seeing the same safety data in real time. Dr. Fauci will be a good steward of our public resources.