Vaccine Chief Says Slowing Of Processes That ‘Save Peoples’ Lives’ Is Worrying Amid Transition Delay

Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the chief advisor for "Operation Warp Speed," elaborates on comments he made to the Financial Times warning against disruption to vaccine development and distribution amid the transition delay. He tells Andrea Mitchell that "Our focus is to make sure we save people's lives. Anything that may slow that process or create any disruption is something that worries us appropriately." Aired on 11/16/2020.
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Vaccine Chief Says Slowing Of Processes That 'Save Peoples' Lives' Is Worrying Amid Transition Delay

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    1. @Duck Dodgers So, that’s a no? You don’t have any reputable sources on why “peer review process is just another cog in the machine that funnels taxpayer dollars into the hands of big pharma”

      You cite the guy who invented the DNA replication technique PCR for… reasons?

      Then an obscure youtube channel with no cited sources for their claims, interviewing Robert F. Kennedy Jr…. an anti-vaxer who doesn’t have a medical degree..

      That’s not great evidence hon. It’s quite bad actually.

    2. @Arron Smith The burden of proof is not on me. I have taken the time to look into the subject. You can choose to remain ignorant if you’d like.

      Unlike you I am not attempting to radically alter society. As a consequence of the lockdown, the amount of starving children in the world has doubled. You better have some good evidence to justify that.

    3. @Arron Smith The vaccine package comes with an ingredient list. If you think it’s a good idea to be injected with heavy metals and aborted baby parts, you are on your own. I’ll pass, thank you.

    4. @Duck Dodgers No.. what you’re doing is choosing to ignore the scientific consensus… that’s the antithesis of the scientific process.

  1. Trump has done more about-faces on the virus than a military drill Sgt! Why would you consider believing someone who has changed his tune so many times? *Sycophantic stupidity!*

    1. And how does any of that explain why he’s changed course so many times? ROFLMAO why did Trump tell Bob Woodward how serious the virus is then tell the public the opposite? Why did repugnicant senators sell stocks which were profitable at the time and buy stock in ppe and pharmaceutical companies after a secret meeting? Critical thinking folks, not conspiracy theories!

  2. Trump has blocked any help to save Americans. His denial continues punishing Americans due to his narcissistic lost of the election. Evil 😈

    1. @Doonan Simpson not a Republican, I just want communism away from America, we fight communism, not embrace it

    1. He’s not… nobody in their right mind would take this “quick” vaccine on a virus with over 90% survival rate?!?

    2. @Hu Kares I think its nano machines being injected in you, you get 2 shots, and I hear it’s super painful, one of them has to be nano machines

  3. Well … there are so many who still haven’t grasped it … It has only just begun … Now the infections are coming and about 3 weeks later the dead come out of it. There will be more and more infections and I estimate that in a week on Friday we will be with 250,000 infections per day. The death rate will also rise sharply and triple per day. But if you don’t want to believe, if you don’t believe that the virus will attack you, you should experience it on your own body. And believe me … Donakld Trump will not help you and you will not get US $ 600,000 worth of treatment like he got. You have to be happy if it still has an oxygen bottle when it’s your turn!

    1. Because name stream media only supports democrats and their cause, democrats in bed with china, when they win, we will become a communist state when we get sold to china, nor freedom of speech or right to bear arms will be safe from the CCP, and those who vote for Biden are stupid.
      Elections being rigged definitely proves everything makes sense, and china not congratulating Biden who was president elected proves they are aware trump is gonna put up a fight, and trump is right.
      If democrats made it look less obvious they rigged elections by 1 no dead people voting, 2 giving him some votes.they act like a greedy kid putting his name in a draw prize box and only putting their name in it

  4. So Trump will cost even MORE lives. And all because America is held hostage by people who can’t accept reality. .

    1. it doesn’t help that the US doesn’t have policies in place that will deal with a snarky sore loser
      who doesn’t give a ratsass about your Constitution, your laws, precedents or norms.

  5. Fun Fact: Pfizer didn’t receive any funding from Operation Warp Speed for actual vaccine development. It was an agreement for distribution if they did discover one.

    1. Even more fun fact, that vaccine was actually developed by BioNTech, in Germany, with money from the *German* government.

    2. Seriously where did you hear that it sounds like a Trump And Jared move in really want to know the facts so I can let people know what insane method of deception is being used to mislead them the American people who still believe the crap they’ve been served from Trump

  6. The same people who oppose school and business closures are usually the same people who refuse to wear masks, and who are less likely to get vaccinated.

    You don’t have to be a socialist to understand that we live in a society, and that “I do me, and you do you,” when taken to an extreme, is just as bad as losing your idividuality to the collective.

    It really isn’t complicated. Some things are individual and some are communal. Communicable diseases require the community to fight them.

    This only has to be temporary if people would just do their part.

  7. At the peak of COVID-19 DUE
    to republicans ill will
    towards the American people,
    Making us suffer more than necessary while they enable Trump & Giuliani lying nonsense. Amazing 70 million people are ok with that.

    1. Trumps to thank for a timely vaccination. He sent ships to ports of California and New York, to make sure hospitals didn’t go without places to put patients. He also wrote executive orders, to order businesses to create products for the pandemic here in America. He also cut red tape so that companies could get busy creating vaccines with a program called project warp speed. Trump made sure there was not one patient that went without a ventilator here in America. Unlike other countries. But hey keep touting what your echo chamber says.

    2. @Simsimaspineshank S didn’t trump leave travel between UK and us open because he had golf courses and other real estate there? All while the UK was getting hit so badly that even Boris Johnson had it? Didn’t trump tell people it would go away in the summer so don’t worry about it? Didn’t he tell people not to take basic health recommendations seriously? Did trump invent the vaccine by himself? Or were there already people working on it while he was calling it a harmless Chinese flu? Sounds like like you’re out of your mind clueless.

  8. I felt at least somewhat reassured listening to this guy. Most of individual 1’s more visible “picks” have been clownishly inept and do nothing to enhance public safety.

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