Anthony Fauci takes credit for Covid vaccine with no mention of Trump's Op Warp Speed: 'Best decision I made'
Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, has appeared to claim complete credit for the decision to quickly develop vaccines against Covid-19, in his latest statement. On Sunday, March 28, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made the comment while in an interview with CNN for a special segment, diving into the details of America's pandemic response.
The CNN special featured interviews with six medical doctors who played key roles in America's pandemic response, including Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Robert Kadlec, Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Stephen Hahn and Dr. Brett Giroir. "When I saw what happened in New York City, almost over-running of our healthcare systems, and that's when it became very clear that the decision we made on January 10 to go all out and develop a vaccine, may have been the best decision that I've ever made with regard to intervention as the director of the institute," Fauci said.
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Fauci's comments didn't talk about the key role played by pharmaceutical companies and Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration's program to deliver vaccines to the public in record time. Trump, who has often shown frustration with Fauci publicly, always promoted Operation Warp Speed as a key achievement of his presidency. In a formal statement earlier this month, Trump said: "I hope everyone remembers when they're getting the Covid-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn't President, you wouldn't be getting that beautiful 'shot' for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn't be getting it at all."
According to Health and Human Services (HHS), US: "Operation Warp Speed is a public-private partnership to facilitate, at an unprecedented pace, the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 countermeasures, between components of HHS, including CDC, FDA, NIH, and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA); the Department of Defense; private firms; and other federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Veterans Affairs."