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Trump had to decide which was worse for the country, a faster to market vaccine or a 4 or 5 year national lockdown until a more tested vaccine was developed.
I believe the vaccine forerunner had been developed in the course if HIV research, so it wasn't a starting from a blank sheet design.
He also didn't plan to make it mandatory.
My take is he had back channel info, and decided to go for it. You also don't know if the vaccine Trump negotiated for is the same one that was issued once Bidan took over.
Would pharma swap out an effective drug in a lower price contract, for an ineffective one, hoping to cash in on a higher price booster That, "Will work, this time. We got the bugs out", under Bidan?
Coincidentally talked to an acquaintance recently who is a hospital exec in a major city, not in the US. Over the fence convo. Info from them was it's non-vaccinated they're treating.
Part of the equation that seems, to me, to be missing a lot in the quest to try to square this circle of conflicting information, is the data point that maybe Trump was right.