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CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “The distribution of [coronavirus] vaccines in the United States has gotten off to a slower-than-expected start, federal health officials acknowledged in a news conference on Wednesday [Dec. 30, 2020], though they also voiced confidence that the pace would accelerate in the coming weeks…

In a tweet on Tuesday, President Trump seemed to lay the blame on governors, saying that it was ‘up to the States to distribute the vaccines once brought to the designated areas by the Federal Government.’ But several governors have recently said their states have struggled because they had not received enough money from the federal government.”

-Rebecca Robbins, “Warp Speed Officials Say Covid Vaccine Distribution Is Going Too Slowly,” nytimes.com, Dec. 30, 2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINE: “Because of the pandemic — horrible, horrible invisible enemy — and despite our tremendous success developing a [coronavirus] vaccine years before it was thought evenly remotely possible. Nobody thought it was going to be possible. They said would take five years. ‘Sir, it will take seven years.’ All of our scientists were saying — our advisors, ‘It will take 7 years, 5 years, 10 years maybe.’ Well, we did it just like I said we would. And we had it out years and years before they thought it was possible. And we’re now delivering it to states, including your state, where your governor and government are doing a terrific job in getting it administered in Texas. And Florida is doing great. Some of them are doing great. Some aren’t doing as well, but they have all they can handle. And we get it to them as fast as they need it, and even faster.

But they’re calling it a ‘medical miracle.’ And this has been a difficult year and a very difficult election. The pandemic has made it a very, very difficult year for our country and virtually every country all over the world.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the 45th Mile of New Border Wall | Reynosa-McAllen, TX,” whitehouse.gov, Jan. 12, 2021

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “We did something that is a really considered a medical miracle. They’re calling it a miracle. And that was the [coronavirus] vaccine. We got the vaccine developed in nine months instead of nine years, or five years, or 10 years, or a long time. It was supposed to take a long time, many, many years to develop a vaccine. We have two out, we have another one coming almost immediately, and it really is a great achievement…

And I can only say this. We have worked hard. We’ve left it all, as the athletes would say, we’ve left it all on the field. We don’t have to come and say— We’ll never say in a month, when we’re sitting in Florida, we’re not going to be looking at each other and saying, ‘You know, if we only worked a little bit harder.’ You can’t work harder.”

-Donald Trump via PBS NewsHour, “WATCH: Donald and Melania Trump say goodbye in final remarks of his presidency,” YouTube.com, Jan. 20, 2021