President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that every American adult would have access to the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of May.
The new amount of vaccines was made possible by a new deal between pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and Johnson & Johnson, manufacture of the new one-shot regimen awarded emergency authorization by the Food and Drug Administration last Saturday.
More Lies: Biden credited his administration for brokering the deal and chided Trump.
“We are now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May,” Biden said. “When we came into office, the prior administration had contracted not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America”
“We rectified that,” Biden claimed.
Oh, really? Did you now Joe?
New York Times White House correspondent Michael Shear asked Psaki how the Biden administration can take credit for the deal when, in fact, the New York Times reported about the deal in January.
“On the timing of the administration’s efforts to help pull this deal together, you said that it was within, I think, the last few weeks,” Shear began. “We wrote our first story at the New York Times about a possible partnership between Merck and J&J for manufacturing on Jan 21.”
“My understanding is that talks between those companies had been in the works before that even, in terms of, sort of, the corporate discussions between them,” Shear continued, adding, “How it is that the Biden administration deserves credit for bringing these two together, when it looks like the discussions had been under way long before you guys got here?”
In a ridiculous response, Psaki said the Biden administration is “merely” celebrating the finalization of the deal.
Paul Plante says
Ridiculous would be Jen Psaki’s middle name, and she is a re-tread dredged up from the “me and Barack” days.
I believe she was Hillary Clinton’s mouthpiece back then when Hillary was using the state department as a means of enriching herself and Bill.
And anybody expecting any truth from the Biden administration about anything, including the time of day and weather, is delusional.
Karen says
Why are you looking for honest answers from a corrupt group of demons?
Diane Haring says
lies, lies, lies. We cannot trust our current government.
Bobbi says
Gropin Joe PINOCCHIO didn’t wear a mask after he was “inaugurated” neither did family members and others. Psaki said it was OK as “a celebration” so it was acceptable for him NOT TO LEAD!
More make up than Revlon, and Maybelline!!!
Paul Plante says
Although U.S. advisors were fighting with South Vietnamese units and U.S. pilots were flying combat missions in South Vietnam, Kennedy denied that Americans were involved in combat, and Vietnam attracted little public or congressional attention.
Vietnam was far from front-page news and Americans still believed that their government told them the truth.
– p.37, Dereliction of Duty – Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Viet Nam by H.R. McMaster
Paul Plante says
Not at all surprisingly, National Propaganda Radio (NPR) is putting the Biden spin on that story in the article “How The White House Got 2 Pharma Rivals To Work Together On COVID-19 Vaccine” on March 3, 2021, Heard on Morning Edition with Tamara Keith, as follows:
President Biden said on Tuesday that a key milestone in the fight against COVID-19 could be reached two months faster than earlier projected.
By the end of May, there should be enough vaccine doses for every adult in America, he said — a dramatic improvement to his initial timetable for late July.
A turning point in speeding up that pledge came a few weeks ago, on a Sunday afternoon in early February, during a phone call with Johnson & Johnson executives that had been planned for 15 minutes but stretched for longer than an hour, two senior administration officials told NPR.
Biden administration officials had been pushing vaccine-makers to find ways to get more doses faster.
Early talks with Moderna and Pfizer led to increased commitments.
“Those are some of the hardest negotiations — I’ve done a lot of them,” said one of the officials involved in the talks.
Then there was Johnson & Johnson.
Its single-dose vaccine looked promising, but even before it had been approved for emergency use, it was clear that the company would not be able to meet its contracted production.
Then came the call, where White House officials got on the line with J&J executives to talk about the urgency of the situation.
“The basic conclusion of that call was, we’ve got to think much bigger and much bolder,” recalled a senior administration official who was on the line.
“We have to take bold action and overwhelm this.”
That February call helped lead to an agreement with Merck — a competitor that had given up on its own vaccine work — to help produce J&J’s vaccine and use its facilities to get it into vials.
The two companies had held some preliminary talks about working together before the Biden team got into the White House, but those proposals had been “at a very small level of ambition” and were “dead by the time we got in” to office, said the official, who knew the CEOs of both companies.
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Now, that would seem to contradict what the New York Times is saying.
Getting back to that story:
The official called J&J CEO Alex Gorsky to express concern and later called Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier.
“I said, ‘You know — heads up — there might be a need for Merck to help here,'” the official recalled.
But it was after the early February phone call that officials felt like J&J had embraced the push, said a second official who was involved in the talks.
“They understood this was a wartime effort.”
“This was their legacy.”
“This was their time.”
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Pardon me, but I just had to go vomit after reading that nonsense about “This was their legacy, This was their time.”
Getting back to it, and here, I am reminded of Harry Truman nationalizing the steel industry back when, the story continues as follows:
The Defense Production Act, which gives the government the power to compel companies to support war effort, provided some “implicit” incentive for the companies to cooperate, administration officials said.
“You have the potential to use the DPA if there isn’t cooperation,” one of the officials said.
The resulting agreement came with an invocation of the DPA that helped accelerate some J&J vaccine deliveries to May that had earlier been set for June.
It also will provide assistance to Merck.
President Biden announced J&J would be running its U.S. facilities “24/7” to speed vaccine out the door.
Merck said it would receive up to $268.8 million in government funding to make adjustments to its facilities, where it will fill vials with J&J’s vaccine and eventually also produce the drug substance used in the J&J vaccine.
In a brief statement, Johnson & Johnson said it was “pleased to collaborate” with Merck on the arrangement to boost production.
The officials said getting Merck involved will vastly increase production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the “medium term.”
That capacity may be needed to produce doses to vaccinate children, an official said, or to make a booster if variants diminish the efficacy of the current vaccine.
The Biden administration is racing against variants of COVID-19 that could make the existing vaccines less effective.
Beyond simply getting the vaccines made and put into vials, they also have to get doses into arms, which is a massive undertaking involving everything from standing up mass vaccination clinics to recruiting retired medical professionals to administer shots.
Soon the emphasis will turn from scarcity to persuasion as the administration and public health officials work to reach people who may be reluctant to get the vaccine.
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Persuasion?
Now, there is an interesting word, alright.
Sounds like a fist in the face to me, anyway.
Sara says
Biden/Harris administration was built on lies. Creepy Biden, pedophile Harris a ho. Damn, people voted these liars into office. Shame on them
Paul Plante says
Joe Biden is president because 306 people out of 330 Million put him in there, while only 232 voted for Trump so Joe Biden is president by 74 votes.
Of the 306 people who voted for Joe Biden, thirteen (13) of them were from Virginia and voted for all Virginians.
Their names are as follows:
Matthew D. Rowe
Barbara H. Klear
Clinton L. Jenkins
Kimberly M. Dieber
Cyliene R. Montgomery
Leah V. Pence
Robert A. Martin
Charles C. Hines
Karen B. Combs
Ellen Scott
Suchada V. Langley
Margo E. Horner
Susan R. Swecker
https://ballotpedia.org/Electoral_College_in_the_2020_presidential_election
Twenty-nine (29) more of Joe Biden’s 306 came from the corrupt third-world ****hole of New York, including votes from William J. Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Andrew M. Cuomo and Katherine M. Sheehan, the Democratic Socialist mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, N.Y., where a huge BLACK LIVES MATTER banner flies over Albany City Hall, proclaiming it as BLACK LIVES MATTER turf.
Katherine M. Sheehan, of course, is the same Kathy Sheehan featured in an Albany Times Union article which in turn has been featured in several Cape Charles Mirror essays, telling us that we have to “embrace” BLACK LIVES MATTER, a Marxist lash-up that seeks BLACK SOVEREIGNTY in America and the suppression of white people, and especially heteronoramative white men.
She is the same Kathy Sheehan who had her police chief publicly take the knee in submission to BLACK LIVES MATTER, the Marxist lash-up.
Those are the people who actually voted for Joe Biden and put him into office, because he reflects their values, those 306 people, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, not the values of the majority of the American people who had absolutely no say whatsoever in the matter.
That is because the Electoral College is the process by which the states and District of Columbia elect the president of the United States, and each state is represented by a number of electors equal to the size of its congressional delegation, and there are 538 electors in total and to win the Electoral College, a candidate must receive a majority — at least 270 — electoral votes.
That talk about Biden getting 82 million votes is all just smoke.
82 million people did not put Joe Biden in office.
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Andy Cuomo and 303 other people did.
So place the blame for Biden squarely where it belongs.