![]() ![]() Since distribution of the vaccines began on December 14, daily deaths and daily cases plummeted. President Donald Trump at the White House in January 2021 Drew Angerer/Getty Images These astonishing vaccines rank among the best ever approved by the FDA. The last administration slashed through regulatory red tape, forged historic partnerships with the private sector and harnessed the full power and resources of the federal government.Īs a result, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson all proceeded quickly through rigorous clinical trials and produced highly effective and safe vaccines. In the months that followed, the Trump administration did the impossible and produced not one, not two, but three vaccines at warp speed. After all, no vaccine in history had been developed in under four years, and many believed that a coronavirus vaccine could take as long as a decade. ![]() The talking heads on CNN, ABC and MSNBC derided the possibility that a vaccine could be approved on an accelerated timeline. When Operation Warp Speed launched last May, many scoffed at its name. But President Trump and Republicans in Congress had the foresight to see the best way forward: rapid, effective vaccine development. The experts were wrong about a lot: the severity of the virus, its origins, its metrics of spread and the proper way to respond to it. They have now been forced to reassess their naïve conclusions, as evidence mounts that the initial outbreak started at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. When I questioned the Chinese Communist Party's alibi that the pandemic started in an outdoor food market and pointed out that it was far more likely that the outbreak started in a lab, these experts and the liberal media wrote me off as a conspiracy theorist. While I was sounding the alarm early last year, these so-called experts denounced a travel ban on China as racist fear-mongering-yet they now admit it saved thousands of lives. They negligently delayed the return of children to the classroom, even though the clear evidence showed that it was safe to do so. They advocated for protracted lockdowns that resulted in the sharpest economic contraction in American history and opposed every attempt to ameliorate these restrictions. Fauci started the pandemic by telling Americans that masks didn't work, but then they demanded that we wear two of them even while outside. The successes of OWS are even more remarkable given the sheer number of mistakes made by public health experts during this crisis. This incredible feat of science and medicine should be celebrated and our nation should seek to codify it and replicate its success in additional fields of pandemic response. Thanks to OWS, our nation developed three safe, effective and life-saving vaccines at record speed. It ranks alongside President Kennedy's Moon Shot in its audacity and is virtually unrivalled in its results. One year ago tomorrow, President Trump launched Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a bold scientific initiative that resulted in one of the greatest medical achievements of the modern age. ![]()
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