Why the Trump brand is toxic for a vaccine

[Chicks]

Why the Trump brand is toxic for a vaccine

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/09/w...editorial.html

...given President* Trump’s general untrustworthiness, and intense pressuring of federal health agencies not up to the task of standing up to his political vandalism, how much confidence do you think Americans will have in the vaccine for COVID-19, when it finally comes?

Coincidentally, that will be right before Election Day, Trump has now declared – despite the fact that no drug company has completed clinical trials.

New Jersey Assemblyman Herb Conaway, a doctor fighting to improve our flu vaccination rate to ward off a “twindemic” of COVID and flu this fall, knows exactly what will happen if we shortcut this.

“People in the anti-vaxxer movement are currently lying about vaccines we use year after year, to great effect,” he says. “Can you imagine if there’s any sense that this vaccine is rushed onto the stage for political purposes, in light of the upcoming election?”

To stop this virus, we need to rebuild the fragile trust in public health agencies, not further erode it, and put science first. If the FDA rushes this just to meet the president’s demands, will even his most devoted supporters step up for the injection?

It can be easy to tune out Trump’s sabotage of the truth, endlessly catalogued by dutiful fact-checkers. But when it comes to his corruption of the science, it’s your own skin on the line – and that of your kids, and elderly parents.

[RickeyM]

If tRump says to take it the cult will obey. Obedience versus critical thinking.

[Chicks]

Pharma CEOs Counter Orange Shitstain By Promising Safety Over Shortcuts In Coronavirus Vaccine Development

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisette...e-development/

The chief executives of nine pharmaceuticals signed a pledge Tuesday saying they won’t submit their coronavirus vaccines for regulatory approval unless large clinical trials prove them to be safe and effective, countering President* Trump’s previous insistence that a vaccine will be ready by November’s election.

Just waiting for the WH spin and the Idiot's tweets on this one...

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Pharma CEOs Counter Orange Shitstain By Promising Safety Over Shortcuts In Coronavirus Vaccine Development

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisette...e-development/



Just waiting for the WH spin and the Idiot's tweets on this one...

So you don't have to wait, it will be something like "It's all (fill-in-the-blank) fault to make me look bad before the election".

Yer welcome.