Trump takes vaccine victory lap at White House summit
President Trump on Tuesday took a victory lap at a White House “Summit” meant to celebrate his administration’s remarkable sprint to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, using the event to claim credit for the effort and deride the experts who initially expressed skepticism at the government’s hyper-aggressive timetable.
An introductory video clip featured early 2020 quotes from figures including President-elect Joe Biden; Tony Fauci, the government researcher whose agency helped to develop and test Moderna’s vaccine candidate; Rick Bright, the ousted director of a federal pandemic-response agency; and Irwin Redlener, a pandemic-response expert and vocal Trump critic. In the video, each expressed doubt that Operation Warp Speed, the federal vaccine initiative, could succeed in developing, testing, approving, and beginning to distribute a vaccine by the end of 2020.
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