"Deploying the vaccine to people in the US and around the world will test and strain distribution networks, the supply chain, public trust and global cooperation. It will take months or, more likely, years to reach enough people to make the world safe.” washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08…
“Experts inside and outside the government still say they fear the White House will push the FDA to overlook insufficient data and give at least limited emergency approval to a vaccine … before the vote on Nov. 3.” nytimes.com/2020/08/02/us/…
State officials and health experts tell The Washington Post that they remain in the dark on key details of how the Trump administration plans to deliver 300 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine to Americans. washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08…
The US government's coronavirus vaccine czar Moncef Slaoui says he expects a coronavirus vaccine to become widely available to most Americans in the second quarter of 2021.
Slaoui’s timeline mirrors what other experts have said.
(Reuters) - A top U.S. health regulator who will help decide the fate of a coronavirus vaccine has vowed to resign if the Trump administration approves a vaccine before it is shown to be safe and effective, Reuters has learned. reuters.com/article/us-hea…
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn tells the Financial Times he is prepared to authorize a coronavirus vaccine before Phase 3 clinical trials are complete if he thinks the benefits outweigh the risks.
Hahn says he wouldn't authorize a vaccine to please Trump.
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it will not join a global effort co-led by the World Health Organization to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine.
“Health departments that have been underfunded for decades say they currently lack the staff, money and tools to educate people about vaccines and then to distribute, administer and track hundreds of millions of doses.” khn.org/news/health-of…
The FDA is scheduled to meet with its vaccine advisory committee to discuss coronavirus vaccines on Oct. 22.
The agenda, as of now, says it will talk about “the development, authorization and/or licensure of vaccines.”
"The WHO does not expect widespread vaccinations against Covid-19 until the middle of next year…None of the candidate vaccines in advanced clinical trials so far has demonstrated a 'clear signal' of efficacy at the level of at least 50%” cnbc.com/2020/09/04/who…
The US government’s coronavirus vaccine czar Moncef Slaoui says a coronavirus vaccine by October or November is “extremely unlikely.”
Slaoui said he “firmly” believed a vaccine could be ready by year’s end, with enough doses for 20-25 million Americans.
“By the time you mobilize the distribution of the vaccinations, and you get the majority or more of the population vaccinated and protected, that's likely not going to happen until the mid or end of 2021."
OSTERHOLM: "When the vaccine does become available—it won't be in any meaningful way until the beginning of next year—…it's still going to take us months to vaccinate the population of just this country…We really have another 12-14 months…ahead of us.”
CDC Director Robert Redfield on when a coronavirus vaccine will be widely available to Americans:
“If you’re asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American public … I think we’re probably looking at third — late second quarter, third quarter, 2021."
TRUMP: “We expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April."
SCOTT GOTTLIEB: "I do not believe that a vaccine will be licensed for general use by the population until, in an optimistic scenario, really the second quarter, probably the end of the second quarter in 2021 and perhaps a little later than that.”
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After the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, some Republican senators said that the legal system — and not impeachment — should be used to consider Donald Trump's actions.
Now, those same senators are criticizing the legal system.
Mitch McConnell
Feb. 13, 2021: "We have a criminal justice system in this country ... former presidents are not immune."
July 19, 2023: "I'm not going to start critiquing the various candidates for president."
John Cornyn
Feb. 13, 2021: "The Constitution makes legal offenses committed while in office subject to investigation and prosecution after a president is no longer in office."
Aug. 4, 2023: "The Biden Justice Dept [indicting] their principal opponent"
House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Pete Aguilar on potential stock trading ban:
"Supporting increased accountability and transparency is something that we all stand behind. Making sure that we are held to the highest standard is exactly what the Democratic Caucus stands for."
Pelosi on stock trading limits in Congress:
12/15/21: "We are a free market economy, they should be able to participate”
1/20: “I do come down always in favor of trusting our members"
2/9: “If that’s what the members want…then that’s what we will do"
"Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation."
“Investigators had been concerned about material from what the government calls ‘special access programs,’ a designation even more classified than ‘top secret’ that is typically reserved for extremely sensitive operations carried out by the US abroad.” nytimes.com/2022/08/11/us/…
INGRAHAM: There were not documents related to our nuclear capabilities or nuclear issues?
BOBB: I don't believe there were.
INGRAHAM: Do you know for a fact?
BOBB: I have not specifically spoken to the president about what nuclear materials may or may not have been in there.
“Corporate PAC contributions to Republican objectors have plummeted by ~2/3…94 Republican objectors raised ~$11m from corporate PACs through 11/30/21, the most recent data available. The same…objectors raised ~$27m from corporate PACs through 11/30/19” popular.info/p/the-truth-ab…
"Toyota is again contributing to lawmakers who resisted certifying the official results of the 2020 presidential election, despite the Japanese automaker's pledge last summer to halt such financial support.”
“No one, starting with the Taliban, has an interest in going back to a civil war … if they start something up again, they’re going to be in a long war.”
Special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad on May 18:
“The statements that the forces will disintegrate and the Talibs will take over in short order are mistaken. The real choices the Afghans will face is between a long war and negotiated settlement”