Trump administration rejected more vaccine doses 'as recently as November,'

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The Trump administration turned down more vaccine doses 'as recently as November,' former FDA commissioner says
Jake Lahut | Mon, December 14, 2020, 11:50 PM GMT+8

• The Trump administration once again rejected an offer from Pfizer for more COVID-19 vaccines "as recently as November," according to former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
• "There were multiple conversations with the U.S. government about taking more supply in the second quarter," Gottlieb, who is a Pfizer board member, told CNBC on Monday.
• This comes on the heels of the Trump administration reportedly rejecting 100 million doses of Pfizer's recently approved COVID-19 vaccine over the summer, according to The New York Times.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Trump's former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, told CNBC on Monday that the Trump administration declined an offer from Pfizer for more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine "as recently as November."

"There were multiple conversations with the U.S. government about taking more supply in the second quarter," said Gottlieb, who is a Pfizer board member. "The company wasn't taken up on the offer as recently as November."

This news follows a New York Times report earlier this week that the White House in the summer rejected 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses developed by the pharmaceutical giant and BioNTech.

The broader implications, according to Gottlieb, are that other countries will swoop in to claim the doses rejected by the US.

"In the interim, other countries have put in orders for those supplies," he said. "I think they're going to work this out. I think hopefully we'll find a way to increase supply and be able to get the government what the government needs."

Gottlieb also noted how dealing with the US government on the vaccine has been "challenging," even given Pfizer's status as an American company.

"This is an American company, we want to work with the US government," he said. "But this has been a challenging process because there have been multiple conversations happening as recently as November, and now they're coming back and wanting to restart those conversations when other commitments have been made in the interim."

The supply of COVID-19 vaccines should not be an issue in the short term, Gottlieb added.

But by April of next year, supply of the Pfizer vaccine could run low stateside, he said.

Still, Gottlieb said, "I think this will get worked out."

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Didn't Dumpster say the vaccine will save Americans' life?

But now he's rejecting buying more vaccines for Americans? 

Isn't Pfizer an American company? US government buying from an US company = Making America Great Again... no?

What is going on?

I'm confused  

[Raider of the lost Ark]

^ It was most likely rejected because this particular vaccine was not part of operation warp speed. Therefore Trump cannot claim this as his success. That the vaccine was actually developed by the German company BioNTech (Pfizer is the partner for its infrastruture, from testing to production to delivery) and the fact that the German government funded BioNTech with almost 400 million dollars isn't helpful either. It hardly fits the narrative that the U.S. is bigger and better in everything. Trump very much considered the development and authorization of a vaccine as a race. And is his mind, the U.S. were supposed to win that race. It's all about bragging rights. The rest of the World couldn't care less where the vaccine is coming from, as long as it helps to end this pandemic. 

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So Americans' lives no longer important once he lost the election? DISGUSTING  

[Camacho]

 at this Facebook comment on a news article about the vaccine.  

So confused...half the Trumpers on here are mad there is a shot for a virus they don't believe in, and half are thanking Trump for giving them the vaccine.  No wonder you all couldn't get him re-elected!  You can't get your stories straight!  #BYEDON2020  #BidenHarris2020 

[Barbie]

That's the GOP way! Keep 'em dumb and dead! 

[Barbie]

39 minutes ago, Junior said:

 at this Facebook comment on a news article about the vaccine.  

So confused...half the Trumpers on here are mad there is a shot for a virus they don't believe in, and half are thanking Trump for giving them the vaccine.  No wonder you all couldn't get him re-elected!  You can't get your stories straight!  #BYEDON2020  #BidenHarris2020