Biden says Trump's COVID-19 response was 'even more dire than we thought'

Source: The Hill | February 8, 2021 | Alexandra Kelley

The new administration is accelerating vaccine manufacturing and rollout.

The U.S.’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under former President Trump was “even more dire than we thought,” President Biden told CBS News on Sunday night. 

While discussing the mass closure of schools for nearly an entire year and the depleting volume of women in the workforce due to the pandemic––two situations Biden calls a national emergency––he also noted that his staff has been surprised by the disarray of the pandemic response by the Trump administration.

One factor that surprised the incoming Biden administration was the COVID-19 vaccine supply.

“We thought they had indicated there was a lot more vaccine available,” Biden said. “And didn’t turn out to be the case. So that’s why we’ve ramped up every way we can.”

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Despite the apparent progress, including more pharmaceutical companies like Johnson & Johnson submitting their COVID-19 vaccine candidates for emergency use authorization, Biden noted that a mass rollout will be daunting.

“The idea that this can be done and we can get to herd immunity much before the end of next — this summer, is very difficult.”

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  • Consistent February 8, 2021 at 3:19 pm #47226

    EVERYDAY February 8, 2021 at 4:08 pm #47228

    The new president walked into a mess on all fronts, but the COVID response — or rather, lack thereof — has been the worst. While hundreds of thousands were dying, Trump tried to ignore it, lie about it, spread conspiracy theories , promote phony cures and preventatives and pointed fingers. About the only aspect of COVID he was interested in is profit and there are stories that he, dopey SIL Jared and others in the Trump Crime Family likely sold PPE, ventilators and maybe even the vaccine to foreign countries for their own profit. Trump wanted to kill as many of us as possible. In a perfect world he would be accused of genocide and tried for it, but that won’t happen.

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