Thumbs up. "Were" is ok too, although some will stumble over it.
Muir acting as if he were part of the deep state lamestream legacy media. At long last an honest man!
Most excellent.
Because it takes time to manufacture that kind of fancy stuff under cGMP, and they will have to scale it up. I imagine the Federal govt is underwriting at least part of the cost of manufacture because yes, under different circumstances, they probably would not parallel testing and manufacture. But people are dying by the thousands and you don't want to sit around waiting for the medicine that cures them (if, of course, it actually does).