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Where Are the Experts Now ?


By May of 2020 President Donald Trump had suggested multiple times that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months, an accelerated timeline that prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers said was unlikely absent a miracle.

“We’re looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before,” Trump said in May during in a Rose Garden event.

From NBC News back in May: ”Experts” said that the development, testing and production of a vaccine for the public was still at least 12 to 18 months off, and that anything less would be a medical miracle.

“I think it’s possible you could see a vaccine in people’s arms next year — by the middle or end of 2021. But this is unprecedented, so it’s hard to predict,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Walter Orenstein, a professor at Emory University and the associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center, said a vaccine in less than a year would be “miracle.”While technically possible,” he added, “it is unlikely.”

Dr. Stanley Plotkin, credited with inventing the rubella vaccine in 1964 said, “In the best of circumstances, we should have a vaccine — or let’s say vaccines — between 12 and 18 months,” he said. “Whether those circumstances will be the best or not, we don’t know.”

In May Trump’s own top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told the “Today” show that January 2021 is the earliest a vaccine could be ready, but cautioned that that timeline is “aspirational” and depends on companies producing a vaccine before researchers are sure it will work.

More yet: 

“A lot of optimism is swirling around a 12- to 18-month timeframe, if everything goes perfectly. We’ve never seen everything go perfectly,” Rick Bright, ex assistant secretary of health, said. “I still think 12-18 months is an aggressive schedule, and I think it’s going to take longer than that to do so.”

Now granted I may have missed it, but after the vaccine was rolled out on 12/14/20, where are the experts now? I have not heard any retractions or apologies from the experts.Mr. Bright, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Pltkin, Dr Ornstein, and Dr. Offit . . . where are you now? Nor have I heard of any praise from any of the other main stream media experts. In fact I have not heard any praise for the work and effort that President Trump put into Operation Warp Speed. 

Getting the vaccine well ahead of its anticipated arrival date may go down as another one of President Trump’s great accomplishments  . . . getting the vaccine in December,2020 instead of well into 2021 will save how many thousands of lives?? 

Where are the experts now?

It’s right to give credit where credit is due.

At this point the country should be saying, “Thank you, President Trump.”

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