President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before

President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before

  • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
    622·
    1 year ago

    Your memory is faulty. In summer and fall 2020, Trump was indicating to staff he may try to force the FDA to approve a vaccine without completing the required tests, just so he could claim that vaccines were out before the election. That would have been catastrophic and stretched the pandemic out for years. Biden and Harris said clearly and publicly on TV that they do not trust Trump and would only trust vaccines approved by scientists. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines both completed phase 3 trials and got FDA authorization in December 2020, and both Biden and Trump got vaccines to show that it was safe.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            8·
            1 year ago

            I’ve had every recommended booster. Obviously I’m dead, but magnetic and my wifi signal has never been better.

            Or maybe I’m just fine because vaccines have been a good fucking idea since Edward Jenner came up with them over 200 years ago.

            Christ, imagine people being this untrusting of all the science and technology they use that has only been in existence for a few decades. You have no trouble using a device invented by ‘big technology’ to complain about things on a network invented by ‘big government.’ And all of that is much, much newer than vaccination.