Did Trump cut off vaccine shipments to Israel?

President Trump, being the great friend of Israel he is, sent an expedited shipment of vaccines to Israel.

But many Israelis are refusing to take the vaccine until it is proven by seeing the results of millions of people who took it first.

“sent an expedited shipment of vaccines to Israel.”

Trump doesn’t have vaccines to ship. They are owned by Pfizer, a private company.

Huju, I’m going to guess that your Israeli mishpacha were always angry with Trump, nothing new with this case

“trump(usa) actually bought in advance a large amount of vaccines so yeh they are trumps(USA) vaccine”

Idiot. They have not been delivered to Trump.

And Trump was in fact trying to prevent vaccines from being shipped to Israel (or anywhere else). But Pfizer has worldwide manufacturing. Yet another reason to support globalization, which Trump hates.

charliehall,

“Idiot.”

Wow, don’t you think the petty name calling is beneath you?

The same “idiot” who for months has done all he can to discredit his own public health experts and scientists who have been trying to minimize the rate of infection pending the widespread availability of vaccines. Even now, he is screaming “its MY vaccine” as if he was personally toiling in the labs 24×7. He should get credit for accelerating the normally slow and bureaucratic approval process but much of those benefits were offset by his denigration of fact-based public health measures to slow the rate of infection.

Pfizer has definitely had “issues” with the Trumpkopf since he originally went after them for correctly denying their relationship with Warp Speed and they commercial arrangements they had negotiated. (He was infuriated they did not genuflect in his direction for their vaccine commercialization efforts). Same for their insistence on NOT committing to releasing premature results and filing for an EUA prior to the election to avoid politicizing the vaccine. They were right on both counts as confirmed by Dr. Scott Gottleib , Trump’s former FDA Commissioner and now a Board member of Pfizer.

Correct. The idiot is the fascist moral degenerate in the WH.

Gadol: Pfizer has definitely had “issues”

This is a typical business case: many (smaller) companies accept government funding for R&D, giving government certain rights in return. Larger companies prefer keeping their IP by paying for R&D and then (gladly) accept government funds for “testing”, “integration” and other activities that presume that product already exists. They do get often paid more than those companies that share IP with the government, but they often leverage their size and relationship with government personnel, who might be interested in joining a board in the future (see your example).

In this case, Pfizer accepted early pre-orders. You can easily get confused by news dis-information. Today, NYT reported the role of US gov – when they switched from dissing Trump for not getting enough vaccines to complaining that developing countries will not have enough vaccines because …. US and other rich countries order too much. Specifically they say – EU ordered 2x over their population; US ordered 4x. US is getting priority shipment because it was
(1) first to pre-pay all major vaccines. EU, etc followed this idea after
(2) paying for R&D for several companies. Canada has a parliamentary inquiry why they paid early for Moderna, but are getting it after US. Answer: clause in funded R&D or/and US executive order

as to your other point, I am not clear why Pfizer did not report preliminary reports before election. Original plan was to wait, I think, for 32 infected, and then, it was switched to 64 and “by the time they looked”, there were 90+. Report that I read was deliberately vague who increased the number, but it sounds more like FDA. Possible that Pfizer was happy to go along as reporting with less results increased risk of getting bad numbers, even if they did not have political motivation.

To charliehall, and congrats, instead now you have a guy who is appointing anti-semities left and right to WH positions (what are we up to, 4,5, 6? I lost count) , which at least distract us from his moral degeneracy (ie perversions and crookedness). That’s a win right?