FLASHBACK: Media Mocked Vaccine by December as Impossible 'Happy Talk'

Bill D'Agostino | December 14, 2020
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When President Trump first announced his administration's accelerated vaccine development plan (Operation Warp Speed) on May 15, the media immediately began thinking up reasons to disapprove. Within hours, journalists were bashing the program as “dangerous” and unrealistic “happy talk,” as well as insisting that according to “the experts,” a vaccine could not be developed by the end of 2020.

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