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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Trump admin awarded a firm $1.3 billion to make Covid vaccine syringes. Where are the syringes?
NBC News via Yahoo!WASHINGTON A year after a Connecticut company was awarded almost $1.3 billion in federal loans and contracts to supply an essential syringe for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, no syringes have been made. The syringe hasn't received even the first of a series of approvals it needs from the federal government before it can be manufactured, and a factory promising 650 jobs remains unbuilt.
ApiJect Systems Corp. positioned itself as the company that would make the difference between a stumbling rollout and delivery of lifesaving vaccines. But as the U.S. vaccine rollout hits full stride, with about half of adults in the U.S. having already received at least one injection, the need for ApiJect's device has waned, leaving the contracts and loans in question.
ApiJect Systems Corp. positioned itself as the company that would make the difference between a stumbling rollout and delivery of lifesaving vaccines. But as the U.S. vaccine rollout hits full stride, with about half of adults in the U.S. having already received at least one injection, the need for ApiJect's device has waned, leaving the contracts and loans in question.
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The Trump admin awarded a firm $1.3 billion to make Covid vaccine syringes. Where are the syringes? (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Apr 2021
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LonePirate
(13,408 posts)1. Make the company pay it back for failing to deliver on the contract
Montauk6
(8,064 posts)2. Did anyone check where they stash the boxes of bleach?
I think they're marked, "COVFEVE"
agingdem
(7,805 posts)3. did anyone check the list of outside investors/board of directors?
are they tied to Trump?...did AbiJect make a hefty political donation that found its way into Trump's private bank account?...did any of his scum advisors get some sort of kickback in exchange for the contract?
keithsw
(436 posts)4. Fuck wad Trump
Probably pocketed a couple hundred million of this
Kingofalldems
(38,422 posts)5. Special Counsel needed pronto.
keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)6. If $1.3B worth of syringes are needed, what are they using now?
If $1.3B worth of syringes are needed, what are they using now?
Is anyone complaining of shortages at this time?