More than 170 countries are in talks to work together to speed vaccine development and equitably secure doses for all countries. The Trump administration said it will not join the effort, in part because the World Health Organization is involved. The decision reflects the administration’s bet that the United States will win the vaccine race, and eliminates the chance to secure doses from a pool of other promising vaccine candidates.
Personally, if the Trump administration is in charge when this US vaccine is cleared, I don’t think I’ll take it and I’m desperate for this vaccine so I can leave my house. But who could trust it under his regime?
If Americans are ever allowed into another country, I would be tempted to go to Canada or even take my chances and fly somewhere to get their vaccine before I’d take a Trump vaccine. How can we possibly trust this bunch of keystone kops and greedheads not to put out something that’s useless or causes cancer just so Trump can take credit for it and they can make a financial windfall? Remember, Trump got the FDA to grant Hydroxychloroquine an emergency use authorization before they knew if it could help and it turned out to actually be harmful in somecases. The recent plasma EUA is thesame thing. It may not hurt but they have no idea if it helps.
Would you want to take a vaccine that may not work and then return to your normal life?
It’s not as if they haven’t been doing this for the last six months. Fool me once shame on you etc, etc, etc.
I’m not usually like this. I believe in vaccines and public health and would normally place my faith in the institutions that do this for the country. But Trump has destroyed all trust in these government agencies and I’m afraid we need a change at the top at all of them and an administration dedicated to saving American lives not saving Donald Trump’s presidency before I’ll do that again.