Joe Biden is president now for over ten months and Omicron infections have only made headlines for a couple of days. Politico found an energetic way to put Omicron infections at the feet of Donald Trump. Erin Banco (Health reporter) found easily anonymous people to criticize Trump. She started:
Decisions by top officials responding to President Donald Trump’s edict to protect “America first” contributed to a global delay in Covid-19 vaccine donations and a lack of effort to assist low- and middle-income countries, according to Five former and current U.S. officials worked for Trump Information about the federal pandemic response.
The failure to view the Covid threat in global terms left some nations — including those where the Omicron variant emerged in recent weeks — lacking inoculation and much more vulnerable to mutations, the officials said.
Banco was able to use Trump’s Operation Warp Speed success to quickly deliver vaccines in record time, while making it seem selfish and provincial.
Despite a series of high-level internal conversations and discussions with the World Health Organization in 2020 about the danger of limiting lower-income countries’ access to the shot, including the emergence of new, more dangerous variants, the Trump administration did not develop a strategy for helping the rest of the world access the vaccine or develop the infrastructure needed to administer vaccines. Instead, it raced to secure as many of the world’s components needed to manufacture a vaccine as possible, cutting other countries out of the supply chain, and quickly scaled up manufacturing of a Covid-19 vaccine to deliver to the American people — not to the global population.
The president “did not see helping other countries as a priority,” said one carping anonymous source. ““If anything, the message inside the White House was to disengage from the world community and deflect blame.”
So anonymous sources can’t be blamed? The liberal media regard hit pieces that are sourced anonymously as “quality journalism.” There is no fear their tweets could be “fact-checked” since they are Old Media, and target Trump.
NEW: This is how the Trump administration’s efforts to make the vaccine and preserve the shot in the U.S. has hindered global Covid-19 fights.
A reflection on how we got to Omicron.https://t.co/zLxoJ16RYX
— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) December 1, 2021
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