“We’re grateful for the work that came before us and are doing the best we can to continue it and accelerate it,” Slavitt said Thursday on Fox News. “I would absolutely tip my hat….The Trump administration made sure that we got in record time a vaccine up and out. That’s a great thing and it's something we should all be excited about.”
The Biden administration has previously said that the Trump administration left them “a mess” on Covid vaccination and President Joe Biden himself called Trump’s vaccine rollout in the early days a “dismal failure.” Slavitt said Thursday that the Biden administration hasn’t been trying to “point fingers.”
After the Warp Speed program fast-tracked vaccine development, initial Covid vaccine rollouts were sluggish but have since ramped up. Governors previously said Warp Speed didn't keep promises on dose deliveries and some experts have said the rollout was disorganized.
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Slavitt’s comments come a day after former President Donald Trump, who was banned from Twitter earlier this year, issued a short, tweet-like statement arguing that without his administration’s work, “you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful 'shot' for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it at all.”
“I hope everyone remembers!” Trump wrote in the statement.
When asked on Fox if Biden would give Trump credit for the vaccine rollout in a primetime address Thursday, Slavitt said that Biden is looking ahead.
“He will try to look forward and talk about the commitments that he has made and that we’ve got to make to geting the country vaccinated, to getting people back up and standing,” Slavitt said. "Our view is there really are no bad guys here. We are going to succeed together or we are going to fail together.”
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Trump was responding to political pressure. The vaccine(s) were created and released FAR too quickly to allow adequate testing for efficacy and safety....unless of course the virus had existed for years and the vaccines actually devloped LONG before the PLannedemic. I'm a mid sixties diabetic.....and WILL NOT been vaccinated. But I also have a degree from one of the PREMIERE medical professions ONLY Universities in America....and 4 decades in healthcare.
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