White House Falsely Claims COVID Vaccines Weren’t Available Till President Biden

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On Thursday, the White House released a statement on Twitter falsely claiming that COVID-19 vaccines were not available when President Biden took office – a claim that was particularly bold since Biden received the vaccine a month before his beginning his presidency.

“When President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available. In the last 15 months, the economy has created 8.3M jobs and the unemployment rate stands at 3.6% — the fastest decline in unemployment to start a President’s term ever recorded,” the White House tweeted.

On December 21, 2020, however, then President-elect Biden announced on Twitter that he had received the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Today, I received the COVID-19 vaccine,” Biden tweeted at the time. “To the scientists and researchers who worked tirelessly to make this possible — thank you. We owe you an awful lot. And to the American people — know there is nothing to worry about. When the vaccine is available, I urge you to take it.”

Biden’s ability to get vaccinated against COVID-19 was a result of the former Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed. President Biden went on to use the Trump administration’s vaccine distribution plan to ensure that vaccines were available throughout the country.

“From the moment the FDA authorized the first vaccines by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc., the U.S. government, first under Donald Trump and then under President Joe Biden, had already arranged to buy all of the companies’ known U.S. production for months to come, assuring hundreds of millions of doses for American arms,” The Financial Post reported last year. “The former administration wrote clauses into contracts with manufacturers and also used the Defense Production Act, which grants the president extraordinary powers over manufacturing in times of crisis, to prioritize U.S. orders.”

“Under Biden, officials managing the vaccine rollout aren’t so blunt, but the sentiment has hardly changed. The new president hasn’t rescinded a Trump executive order that declared Americans would be first in line for U.S.-made vaccines, followed by allies,” the outlet said. “And the same tools the Trump administration used to keep domestically produced vaccines within the nation’s borders have been employed by Biden’s team — chiefly, a provision of the DPA that allows the U.S. to assign its orders “priority” over others. The law dates to the Korean War.”

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