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    Exclamation Trump WH orders FDA chief to authorize Pfizer vaccine Friday or submit his resignation

    Bold step in apparent aggressive MAGA drive to Make America Safe Aagain (MASA) ...assuming WaPo report is accurate.


    White House orders FDA chief to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Friday or submit his resignation

    The message from a top Trump aide prompted the agency to accelerate its announcement, which had been planned for early Saturday.

    By Josh Dawsey and
    Laurie McGinley
    Dec. 11, 2020 at 3:14 p.m. EST

    White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Friday told Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, to submit his resignation if the agency does not clear the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine by day’s end, according to people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss what happened.

    The threat came on the same day that President Trump tweeted that the FDA is “a big, old, slow turtle” in its handling of vaccines, while exhorting Commissioner Stephen Hahn to “get the dam vaccines out NOW.” He added: “Stop playing games and start saving lives!!!”

    washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/11/trump-stephen-hahn-fda-covid-vaccine/





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    U.S. vaccine near, but deaths rising by 9/11 proportions each day

    by Reuters
    Friday, 11 December 2020
    WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A mounting U.S. death toll has tempered enthusiasm about a coming COVID-19 vaccine with 9/11-like fatalities projected every day for the months ahead, even with a rapid rollout of inoculations, which could start as soon as Monday. Another 2,902 U.S. deaths were reported on Thursday, a day after a record 3,253 people died, a pace projected to continue for the next two to three months until the vaccine can be widely distributed.
    Those daily tolls are roughly equivalent to the 2,996 killed in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and greater than the 2,403 killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor - traumatic events that reshaped the United States for years.
    news.trust.org/item/20201211142145-sambj



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    About what I expect at this point. Drain the swamp, expect for those who are beholden personally.

    XNN
    "They sell us the president the same way they sell us our clothes and our cars. They sell us every thing from youth to religion the same time they sell us our wars. I want to know who the men in the shadows are. I want to hear somebody asking them why. They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are but theyre never the ones to fight or to die." - Jackson Browne Lives In The Balance

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    There are increasing signs mow that MAGA will be vacating White House in a month, however vaccination drive should not suffer and Biden is expected to continue this push with same zeal.


    Quote Originally Posted by XNavyNuke View Post
    About what I expect at this point. Drain the swamp, expect for those who are beholden personally.

    XNN
    Actually 'Drain the swamp' is no longer official slogan of MAGA wing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    Actually 'Drain the swamp' is no longer official slogan of MAGA wing.
    That depends on who is now officially recognized as the "swamp".
    There is no spoon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    That depends on who is now officially recognized as the "swamp".
    My criteria is pretty straight forward - are you employed full time by .gov at any level?

    XNN
    "They sell us the president the same way they sell us our clothes and our cars. They sell us every thing from youth to religion the same time they sell us our wars. I want to know who the men in the shadows are. I want to hear somebody asking them why. They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are but theyre never the ones to fight or to die." - Jackson Browne Lives In The Balance

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    Quote Originally Posted by XNavyNuke View Post
    My criteria is pretty straight forward - are you employed full time by .gov at any level?

    XNN
    LOL- NO. That was sarcasm.

    I think we both agree on who the swamp really is- unfortunately, .gov now acts like any average joe in the US, is the "swamp".
    There is no spoon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    That depends on who is now officially recognized as the "swamp".
    The other guys.

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    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
    Dec 11
    I just want to stop the world from killing itself!

    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
    Dec 11
    While my pushing the money drenched but heavily bureaucratic @US_FDA saved five years in the approval of NUMEROUS great new vaccines, it is still a big, old, slow turtle. Get the dam vaccines out NOW, Dr. Hahn @SteveFDA. Stop playing games and start saving lives!!!



    Within hours of his threat, FDA approved vaccine and injections to start within hours. When Trump means business, he gets it done. ( But hopefully he won't use same tough approach to force quick withdrawls of troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria as deep pockets neocons already seem unhappy with him).



    FDA issues emergency use authorization for Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

    By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
    Updated 3:40 AM ET, Sat December 12, 2020
    (CNN) The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized the first Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in the United States. Millions of doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which has been found to be 95% effective, will be soon shipped around the country so vaccinations can begin within days.
    An emergency use authorization means what its name suggests: a medical product gets special authorization by the FDA to be used during an emergency -- but it is short of a full approval. Pfizer would have to file a separate application for its vaccine to be fully licensed by the FDA.
    cnn.com/2020/12/11/health/covid-vaccine-fda-eua/index.html


    Coronavirus updates: Vaccinations to begin Monday; FDA officials assure public that Pfizer vaccine is safe

    Updated 3:21 p.m. ET Dec. 12, 2020
    A day after authorizing the first COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S., federal officials said Saturday that distribution has begun.
    "As I speak today, right now, vaccines are being packaged," Gen. Gustave Perna, co-leader of Operation Warp Speed in charge of logistics, said Saturday. "Tomorrow morning, vaccines will start rolling from manufacturing to distribution hubs. By Monday, vaccines will be received."
    The vaccine will be sent to to 636 locations nationwide this week, with 145 sites receiving doses Monday, 425 on Tuesday and the final 66 on Wednesday, Perna said.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ng/3893846001/



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    Federal database for Covid-19 vaccination info raises concerns about privacy and vaccine uptake

    Sun December 13, 2020

    (CNN)As Operation Warp Speed prepares to give the first Americans the coronavirus vaccine, states are set to turn over varying levels of non-identifiable information about vaccine recipients in order to help the federal government track the effort to eradicate the virus.

    But not all states have been willing to hand over their data blanketly. Plans for a new database to manage that information, which OWS laid out last week, have raised privacy concerns and led to fears that it could actually discourage Americans from getting vaccinated.
    The issue of data-sharing turned into a standoff between federal agencies compiling the new database and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday, with the Democratic governor raising concerns about how it might impact vaccine uptake -- especially in immigrant communities.
    State immunization systems will provide non-identifying information, such as who has been vaccinated, what vaccine an individual received, and the site where the vaccine was administered, which will be stored in a cyber-secure federal database called the Data Clearinghouse, according to Army Col. RJ Mikesh, information technology lead for OWS, which is tasked with overseeing federal vaccine distribution.
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Health and Human Services have been working on signing data use and sharing agreements with states, counties and other jurisdictions that would allow them to compile state-gathered details in the Data Clearinghouse. The database will then be used for things like accessing patterns of vaccination, tracking the required second doses and highlighting under-vaccinated populations, Mikesh said.

    State concerns

    Most states have submitted data use agreements, but a handful were still being worked out, and were expected to be finished last week, OWS officials said on a call with reporters on Monday.
    But it has raised issues like data privacy, how the data gathering might affect vaccine uptake, and HIPAA compliance.
    The Minnesota Department of Health said they will only be sharing date of birth, county and vaccine information to the Data Clearinghouse. "This is just a matter of Minnesota being limited by our state's data privacy laws," said Scott Smith, information officer with the Minnesota Department of Health.
    Pennsylvania health department officials initially had submitted edits regarding personally identifiable information, according to department press secretary Nate Wardle. The edits were rejected and the state ended up signing the agreement from the CDC, Wardle told CNN on Friday.
    Mikesh defended the information-sharing. "It's really there for that basic uptake, basic safety ... first dose verification. It is not for sharing with other organizations. It's for the pandemic response -- it's a very minimal amount of information. Information that is personal ... is really there to help us with that first dose verification so that we can understand what the person received, and when they receive it," he said.
    ...
    cnn.com/2020/12/13/politics/coronavirus-vaccination-database/index.html



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