Team Biden’s COVID-Vaccine Deceptions

Many of the new administration’s claims about coronavirus vaccines are, at best, politically convenient half-truths.

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President Joe Biden speaks as he tours a Pfizer manufacturing plant producing the coronavirus vaccine in Kalamazoo, Mich., February 19, 2021.

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Can somebody tell President Biden that the election is over? Since he was sworn in six weeks ago, he hasn’t stopped denigrating the Trump administration’s COVID-19-vaccination program. His statements are unbecoming, counterproductive, and, worst of all, mostly false.

Immediately after January’s inauguration, Biden’s team claimed that Trump had left it no vaccine plan, that Biden would have to “build everything from scratch” and start “from square one.” Dr. Anthony Fauci disputed these claims, and for good reason: In fact, the Trump administration left Biden with two approved vaccines and 17 million doses already administered, the fifth-best vaccination rate in the world on a per capita basis and the second-best among large countries.

Joel Zinberg

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Joel Zinberg

Joel Zinberg is a director of the Paragon Health Institute’s Public Health and American Well-Being Initiative. He served as senior economist and general counsel at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, 2017–19.

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