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In recent days, the liberal media have dedicated a lot of effort into stoking fear the coronavirus vaccines being developed by multiple pharmaceutical companies under the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, which put the full weight of the U.S. government behind developing and distributing a safe and effective vaccine. Of course, they were taking their cues from the Biden campaign and Senator Kamala Harris, who said last week she “would not trust” a vaccine developed under President Trump.
But during a taped interview with CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell, which aired Thursday evening, Moderna president Dr. Stephen Hoge shot down their coordinated fear-mongering by admitting he was NOT feeling political pressure.
“Is Moderna feeling political pressure,” O’Donnell wondered, the undercurrent was that Trump was putting people in danger by rushing vaccine development.
In his response, Hoge explained that they weren’t feeling political pressure, but they were feeling social pressure because they wanted to put an end to the pandemic. He also noted they wanted to be transparent about it.
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