CNN’s Tapper to Bill Gates: How Much Credit Does Operation Warp Speed and President Trump Deserve?
‘These vaccines were created and tested in record time, under a year’
Dec 13, 2020 1:00 PM
By Grabien Staff
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TAPPER: "These vaccines were created and tested in record time, under a year. According to the data right now, they have a very high effectiveness, more than 90%. How much credit for the success, do you think, Operation Warp Speed and President Trump deserve?"
GATES: "Well, the mRNA vaccines, which the first two are, our foundation and others have been backing for quite some time. Pfizer teamed up with BioNTech, a partner of ours, and did not take government money, so they, you know, went out on their own. Moderna got money before there was an Operation Warp Speed back when it was just called BARDA, and that money did help them take a risk because they are not a large company and they got help on some of their trials work. So the U.S. R&D funding, you know, which had been there for pandemics well before this administration, that was a contribution greater than any other country."
