Actual NY Times BS Headline: Biden Got the Vaccine Rollout Humming, With Trump's Help [View all]
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Source: New York Times
What a load of crap the NY Times is heaving at the American public. The trumpster fire that was the last maladministration didn't do squat to protect the public from the ravages of covid. tRump didn't have a plan on how to deal with covid, yet the NY Times is trying desperately to give him credit? Bullshit!
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Beyond the triumphant tone, a closer look at the ramp-up offers a more mixed picture, one in which the new administration expanded and bulked up a vaccine production effort whose key elements were in place when Mr. Biden took over for President Donald J. Trump. Both administrations deserve credit, although neither wants to grant much to the other.
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To Trump administration aides, the new president's crowing rings off-key. Mr. Biden is proclaiming victory off his predecessor's achievements while wrongly grumbling about a mess he says he inherited, they say.
"They criticize what we did, but they are using our playbook every step of the way," said Paul Mango, the Trump administration's deputy chief of staff for health policy and a senior official in the crash vaccine development effort then known as Operation Warp Speed. He said Mr. Trump's team oversaw the construction or expansion of nearly two dozen plants involved in vaccine production and invoked the Defense Production Act 18 times to ensure those factories had sufficient supplies.
The Biden team is "maintaining a very nice trajectory," Mr. Mango said. "But don't criticize us to make yourselves look better."
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/us/politics/biden-coronavirus-vaccine.html
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