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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,956 posts)
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 10:07 PM Nov 2021

Nazi Stephen Miller's shameless groveling

Trump Would've Already Made a Vaccine for Omicron Variant, Stephen Miller Claims

Stephen Miller, former White House senior advisor under Republican former President Donald Trump, has baselessly claimed that if Trump were still president, he would have already developed a vaccine for the new COVID-19 omicron variant.

"If President Trump was still in office, by the way, we'd already have modified vaccines to deal with the new variant," Miller said on Fox News' Hannity Friday night.

The variant was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday. WHO only designated it as a "variant of concern" on Friday.

It took the Trump Administration 11 months to develop its first COVID-19 vaccine after the first confirmed case emerged in the U.S. on January 20, 2020. Trump authorized the speedy development of the vaccine under Operation Warp Speed, but it wasn't available until December 17, 2020.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-would-ve-already-made-a-vaccine-for-omicron-variant-stephen-miller-claims/ar-AARcZoT

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Nazi Stephen Miller's shameless groveling (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2021 OP
Hard slap is all he needs. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2021 #1
More than one to do the job right. TreasonousBastard Nov 2021 #6
Fuck Miller. That is all. NewHendoLib Nov 2021 #2
There would be no variants dalton99a Nov 2021 #3
Lol this guy! Baked Potato Nov 2021 #4
Lol Demovictory9 Nov 2021 #11
What an idiot. Disaffected Nov 2021 #5
After the Chinese published the genetic code lapfog_1 Nov 2021 #8
He knows that the audience he was speaking to is a bunch of morons. nt Progressive Jones Nov 2021 #12
He knows that the audience he was speaking to is a bunch of morons. nt Progressive Jones Nov 2021 #13
The pharma companies lapfog_1 Nov 2021 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Nov 2021 #10
...and the Fearful Leader would have done it while scoring an 18 on an 18 hole round of golf. LudwigPastorius Nov 2021 #9
And Operation Warp Speed played NO part in the development of the vaccine nakocal Nov 2021 #14
Yep, as with everything else with Orange Julius maxrandb Nov 2021 #15

Disaffected

(4,554 posts)
5. What an idiot.
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 10:50 PM
Nov 2021

How can you develop a vaccine only a few days after the new variant is identified?

I suspect though he knows that - he is just flinging shit.

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
8. After the Chinese published the genetic code
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 11:01 PM
Nov 2021

for Sars-Cov-2, it was only a matter of weeks until the pharma companies made the very first vaccines for it.

Big difference between making a small amount and making billions of doses... not to mention running them through all the trials needed to prove both safety and efficacy.

That is a year long process (which they actually accomplished in about 9 months).

Making a variation of the vaccine (IF needed) might go faster, but will still take months.

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
7. The pharma companies
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 10:56 PM
Nov 2021

have already sequenced the genes in the variant.

It will take all of 2 weeks to tweak the major vaccines (Moderna, Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, J & J) to account for the changes in the spike protein.

The problem is that it will take months, probably 3 to 4 months if not longer, to run the tweaked vaccines through the various trials that will need to happen. That said, we should do Warp Speed 2 where we ramp up production of the new vaccines ahead of the clinical safety and efficacy trials on the bet that at least a couple of the vaccines will get EUA.

That is... IF the current vaccines are not good enough (we think Omicron evades them, but we don't KNOW that or to what degree).

Stephen Miller should go stuff his head in a toilet someplace.

Response to lapfog_1 (Reply #7)

LudwigPastorius

(9,139 posts)
9. ...and the Fearful Leader would have done it while scoring an 18 on an 18 hole round of golf.
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 11:05 PM
Nov 2021

Trump's toadies are no longer supporting his delusion that he is president, they're supporting his delusion that he is Kim Jong-Un

nakocal

(552 posts)
14. And Operation Warp Speed played NO part in the development of the vaccine
Sun Nov 28, 2021, 02:36 AM
Nov 2021

Vaccines were developed using money from other sources. Operation Warp Speed was just a way for Trump and his idiot supporters to claim that they did something to fight COVID-19. In actuality, they are all on the virus' side.

maxrandb

(15,324 posts)
15. Yep, as with everything else with Orange Julius
Sun Nov 28, 2021, 10:03 AM
Nov 2021

It was BRANDING!

I was on a 9 month WESTPAC deployment with the Navy when SARS broke out on 2003.

SARS was Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome. It was nasty, but mostly confined to the Western Pacific. We cancelled multiple port visits because of it.

I think that it was the Obama administration, along with the Bush administration, that pushed for funding research into the entire MRNA vaccine development process.

Everything the Asspickle Dipshit did was branding and marketing, because he knows that if the ads and the marketing are good enough, you can get enough Americans to buy Pet Rocks to make a fortune.

If a fucking crackhead can make bank selling plastic stuffed pillows....

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