FLASHBACK: Trump was right on timeline of vaccine rollout
“Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month, and we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April,” said President Trump in September.
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“Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month, and we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April,” said President Trump in September.
President Joe Biden has taken the credit for making vaccines available to all Americans by mid-April. While he initially said that vaccines would be available to all US adults by the end of May, that timeline has ramped up to mid-April. The first person to announce that all Americans would be able to be vaccinated by April was former President Donald Trump, and he was smeared for it.
The Washington Post wrote in September that "President Trump said Friday that every American would have access to a coronavirus vaccine by April, contradicting his own statement of two days earlier and sowing deeper confusion about the process and timing of vaccine approval and distribution."
They wrote that "When Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield said earlier in the week that the general public was unlikely to get access to a vaccine until the second and third quarters of 2021, echoing other scientific leaders in the administration, Trump said he'd misspoken.
"'I think he made a mistake with that statement,' Trump said Wednesday. 'When he said it, I believe he was confused. I’m just telling you we're ready to go.'"
The Washington Post slammed the president for making the prediction that "Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month, and we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April," said President Trump in September.
Meanwhile, that's exactly what is happening. There will be enough vaccine for all Americans to get a dose by mid-April.
The Washington Post lit into Trump's Operation Warp Speed, a federal program which is responsible for the large quantity of vaccine's developed in the US. They decried the administration's purchasing of these vaccines before they were tried and found to be effective.
While on the campaign trail, then-Senator now-Vice President Kamala Harris said that she did not yet trust the vaccine. Now, the Biden administration is not only pushing that all Americans get vaccinated, but is claiming the success of the vaccine rollout as their own.
Biden was handed a well-run vaccine program, ready to be rolled-out according to a plan already in place. That plan was decried as wishful thinking by mainstream media, and now it is coming to pass.
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