Both Pfizer and Moderna, the two major drug manufacturers likely to receive emergency authorizations for a Covid-19 vaccine in the coming weeks, have rejected invitations from President Trump to appear at a White House “Vaccine Summit” on Tuesday, Stat reports.



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Bloomberg says the three-hour summit is scheduled to be held indoors, despite a raging pandemic.


President Donald Trump plans to hold a “vaccine summit” at the White House on Tuesday that’s intended to increase confidence in the new vaccines among the American public, according to a senior administration official.

The president will open the three-hour, indoor summit with remarks, followed by discussions of how the vaccines were developed and how they’ll be regulated, distributed and administered. He plans to sign an order for the Department of Health and Human Services to prioritize people in the U.S. before helping other countries in need of the medicine.

The president has claimed personal credit for the rapid development of coronavirus vaccines, which were assisted by the Trump administration’s “Operation Warp Speed” program. Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. have each asked for FDA approval for their shots, both of which are better than 90% effective according to preliminary data from clinical trials.

Federal officials have said states will receive initial deliveries of the two vaccines within 24 hours of regulatory approval. Pfizer’s vaccine may be approved as soon as next week, Vice President Mike Pence has said.

Each shot will be tracked by a computer system at HHS built by Palantir Technologies Inc. and Oracle Corp., another senior administration official said. No health provider can administer a vaccine without being enrolled in the system, the official said, which will provide a daily record of how many people in the country have been vaccinated.

The two companies are close to the White House. Palantir chairman Peter Thiel and Oracle Chief Executive Officer Safra Catz have been Trump supporters.

The administration aims to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end of the year, the official said. No federal employee -- other than health-care workers for Native Americans, veterans and the military -- is likely to play a role in distributing the vaccine to the general public, the second official said.

Once the U.S.’s needs are met, government agencies including the Export-Import Bank and the International Development Finance Corp. will address distributing vaccines to other countries in need.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-07/trump-plans-to-order-government-to-vaccinate-americans-first

Trump The trumpeter

Why should they attend? So that loser Trump can whine and accuse them of collaborating with democrats and China to get him out of office


Trump is on his way out. Nobody will take nonsense from him anymore