It’s poetic that when the U.K. began its Covid vaccinations Tuesday, the second person to receive an injection was 81-year-old William Shakespeare from Warwickshire, his famous namesake’s home county.
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions,” the Bard wrote in “Hamlet,” using words that aptly describe this awful year. The coronavirus has brought death, suffering, sorrow, isolation, despair and economic ruin. But even as dark winter approaches, we’re sustained by something else: hope.
It comes in the form of vaccines, which typically take years, even decades, to develop—never mind manufacturing and distributing them in quantities large enough to achieve “herd immunity” and make viral spread highly unlikely. Yet here we are, less than a year after the coronavirus hit, with multiple effective vaccines tested, approved in some countries, and mass-produced. It’ll take months to make billions more, distribute them and inoculate people in numbers large enough to end this global pandemic, so we aren’t out of the woods yet. But we’re witnessing modern science’s amazing ingenuity, creativity and results.
Credit for the unprecedented speed in developing these vaccines goes to scientists and researchers who worked endless hours and showed incredible skill. Credit also goes to President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, which gave critical resources and expeditious approvals to pharmaceutical companies.
opinion KarlRove CREDiT TRUMP FOR THE USA DOWNFALL & THE THOUSANDS OF COVID19 DEATHS DUE TO HIS “GROSS NEGLIGENCE” “INACTION” “INCOMPETENCE” “STUPIDITY” & HIS “INSANITY!” LOCK HIM UP ASAP!
opinion KarlRove Lol. Emply cupboards, no protocols, no nothing. Wow.
opinion KarlRove That’s one weird opinion
opinion KarlRove I think we have pretty good scientists working for large firms. We don't manage these market failures well, yet, but we can get better. Let's keep our democracy. = Save the jaguar
opinion KarlRove a proper response would of saved lives without a vaccine
opinion KarlRove It would have been even faster if Trump did not dismantle the team Obama put together.
opinion KarlRove WSJ, Why does Donald Trump want to take credit for Pfizer’s vaccine when it was NOT FUNDED by his administration and not to mention he passed on purchasing additional supply.
opinion KarlRove Proof that KarlRove is no objective pundit. Where was this super prepared platform during H1N1 and Ebola? Why didn’t you declare in August that Bush had already paved way for vaccine success? Because it’s all BS! keepspinng
opinion KarlRove Of course he wouldn’t credit the most prepared Obama Administration.
opinion KarlRove Has Bush or Obama developed vaccine for swine flu? How many US citizens got swine flu during Obama administration?
opinion KarlRove It’s tragic that yr Pres didn’t have the humility and heart to stop the virus in the first place
opinion KarlRove Credit our speedy vaccine development in part to the use of vaccine 1000 years ago in China. So what? When you cannot deny Trump's efforts on vaccine development, you just try to undermine it. Propaganda.
opinion KarlRove The current administration got rid of President Obama's extensive Pandemic Preparedness Plan, which included 'speedy vaccine development.' Isn't it just like White Male Fascists to try to eradicate People of Color and claim their successes as their own. We Won't Allow It. 😡😡
opinion KarlRove But just tell this low iq man child trump it was him : ( has there ever been a dumber president?
opinion KarlRove KarlRove I doubt if WhiteHouse and realDonaldTrump would like this !
opinion KarlRove Bush’s ban on stem cell research put us a decade behind in medical research
opinion KarlRove Karl Rove while writing this
opinion KarlRove Credit science.
opinion KarlRove I'm sure KarlRove's assertions and timing aren't self-serving at all.
opinion KarlRove Lol what a stupid thing to say. Really one of the dumbest things I've read from that incredibly dumb person and he has so many really, and I gotta stress this, really really dumb things to say.
opinion KarlRove Oops. I think you just lost the last shreds of your non Stockmarket credibility with this one.
opinion KarlRove needs to stop giving morons like karlrove a voice.
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