The Covid-19 vaccine will be administered to Americans before the end of 2020. Donald Trump said so last spring, sparking sarcasm from most analysts. Finally, time proved him right. Pfizer-BioNTech’s first vaccine was administered on Saturday, 24 hours after its approval by the US Medicines Agency (FDA) and just three weeks after filing.
A gigantic logistics operation was immediately launched to distribute the vaccine to the four corners of the country. Right now, three million doses will be shipped by Pfizer directly to hospitals, pharmacies and designated sites in individual states and some major cities. The federal government has decided to reserve another three million available doses to send them three weeks later, when the vaccine booster is due to be injected.
The vaccine, of which the US government has pre-purchased 100 million doses, is 95% effective.
If it is noted that he will leave the White House on January 20 after numerous appeals without effect on the solidity of American institutions, the billionaire leaves consoled although ruminating on a new conspiracy theory according to which the announcement of the effectiveness of the vaccine of Pfizer on November 9 was delayed to lose the presidential elections on November 3.
The laboratory “didn’t have the courage to do it before,” said Donald Trump in one of his tweets to global audiences, which he alone has a monopoly on. The FDA and Democrats “didn’t want me to win a vaccine before the election, so instead it came out five days later,” he fumed the one who resisted the mask for months.
Five days after Pfizer’s announcement, the Moderna laboratory, carried at arm’s length by state aid, in turn claimed that its vaccine against the coronavirus is 94.5% effective.
“Another vaccine has just been discovered. It was designed by the Moderna laboratory, and it is 95% efficient. May all the great “historians” remember that these formidable discoveries, which will put an end to the Chinese virus, were made under my supervision! Donald Trump tweeted on November 16, congratulating himself on “his discovery”.
The disastrous toll of the coronavirus, however, forces it to a modest triumph. The country worst affected by the pandemic, with nearly 300,000 dead and 16 million cases of Covid-19, would America blame the one it fired from the White House for culpable negligence?
