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"Americans will always do the right thing - after exhausting all the alternatives." -- Churchill 3 vaccines in record time.. I know J&J is still pending. I wa
by sremani 6y ago
"Americans will always do the right thing - after exhausting all the alternatives."
-- Churchill
3 vaccines in record time.. I know J&J is still pending. I want the Healthcare/CDC/FDA pipeline to be improved.. Without American ingenuity the world is a much bleaker place.
- soperj 6y agoYou realize Russia and China had ones quicker?
- sremani 6y agoI never claimed US was fastest in spite of my skepticism about Russia and China, but it's the US vaccines that would get wide spread use in ending this pandemic. 3 is a good number and perhaps more will come from USA.
- jfengel 6y agoThe Pfizer vaccine was developed in Germany. The Oxford vaccine was developed in the UK. Of the approved vaccines, only the Moderna vaccine was developed in the US (and it's actually being manufactured in Switzerland). The J&J vaccine is being developed in Belgium. That's not to say that the US hasn't been playing important roles, both now and in the research that enabled this. But "without American ingenuity" we'd be using vaccines from several other countries (including several more that are currently in development, as well as China and Russia, who have approved vaccines already in use).
- sremani 6y agoDid you get vaccinated?
- jfengel 6y agoI will, as soon as I can. As a healthy middle aged person I'm not high up on the list.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThat’s completely unrelated to the question at hand. Your assertion was that American ingenuity brought us three vaccines, which was demonstrably disproven. If you want to make the point “but we’ll do a great job distributing it”, an argument I’m not feeling positive about, then make that argument explicitly.