Only I can fix it · First term · № 34

Only I can fix it

Nobody else would have delivered the COVID vaccines

“We're rounding the turn because of, the turn because of what we did with the vaccines. And nobody else would have done it, it would have taken so long.”
Said
, Campaign rally before the Georgia Senate runoffs, Dalton Municipal Airport, Dalton, Georgia
Subject
the COVID-19 vaccines
Topic
COVID-19
Era
First term

What happened

In the same speech he said of the vaccine, "Nobody else would have done that." PolitiFact reported that Pfizer did not take federal research money through Operation Warp Speed ("The U.S. government did not fund the companies' research and development"); the government signed a purchase agreement, and Pfizer's CEO said he wanted "to liberate our scientists from any bureaucracy." Moderna did receive up to $955 million in federal development funding. On January 20, 2021, the day he left office, 4,383 COVID-19 deaths were recorded in the U.S., with the country averaging just under 3,100 deaths a day.

Sources

  1. Remarks at a Campaign Rally Prior to the Georgia State Senate Election Runoff in Dalton, Georgia The American Presidency Project (UCSB), Jan 4, 2021
  2. Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and Operation Warp Speed: what's the connection? PolitiFact, Nov 19, 2020
  3. ISIS, drug prices and COVID-19 deaths: How viral posts mislead on Biden's first days PolitiFact, Jan 26, 2021