Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed vs. Joe Biden FDA speed

Dr. Marty Makary's op-ed for Fox News is a definite eye-opener. Dr. Makary "teaches public health policy as Professor of Surgery and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health." Dr. Makary's op-ed shines a bright, unflattering light on the FDA . It leads to a comparison between Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed and Joe Biden's FDA approval of Molnupiravir.

Dr. Makary writes "Our public health leaders have become too be accepting of the bureaucratic processes that would outrage a fresh eye. For example, last week the antiviral pill Molnupiravir was found to cut COVID hospitalizations in half and, remarkably, no one who got the drug died." Dr. Makary continued, saying "The irony is that Molnupiravir was developed a year ago. Do the math on the number of lives that could have been saved if health officials would have moved fast, allowing rolling trials with an evaluation of each infection and adverse event in real-time. Instead, we have a process that resembles a 7-part college application for each of the phase 1, 2, and 3 clinical trials. The FDA is now in receipt of Molnupiravir's application for an EUA, which the agency will ponder for the next two to three months. Authorization of this life-saving drug is expected just when the last Covid wave will be over."

Critics and skeptics questioned then-President Trump when he predicted that we'd have a vaccine by the end of 2020. Check out ABC's reporting on a vaccine timeline:

Throughout the pandemic, then-President Trump cut red tape wherever possible, talked with the CEOs of Big Pharma constantly and stayed in touch with the testing and manufacturing timelines. In the end, Trump was right. The 'experts' were wrong.

Joe Biden isn't riding herd on the FDA or any other agency in his administration. With Biden, it's all about the vaccines all the time. Biden has, at minimum, ignored natural immunity. Biden hasn't touted the virtues of therapeutics, either, even though they clearly work.

Since the FDA first authorized a COVID vaccine, ample data has demonstrated that spacing out the first two doses of a Covid vaccine by a few months or more generates stronger immunity—a principle that’s true for any vaccine in medicine. In the case of the Pfizer vaccine, waiting three months between the first and second dose results in 3.5-times the immunity.

Yet the FDA is absolute that people still must get their second mRNA dose at 3 or 4 weeks after the first because that’s how its committee first voted to authorize them. The new data are clear, everyone should be encouraged to space out their first two vaccine doses by months instead of weeks. Doing so would likely obviate the need for a booster in the future.

Biden and Psaki constantly tell us to "follow the science." I'll willingly follow the science of science-minded scientists. I won't trust scientists who are mostly politicians but dabble in science. Dr. Fauci fits into that category. In fact, he pretty much created that category.

I trust Dr. Makary because he's stuck to the data. Dr. Fauci has mostly dabbled in speculation and opinion. Then-President Trump stayed well-informed throughout Operation Warp Speed. People ridiculed him for that.

In the end, Trump got the vaccine produced like he said he would. More people have died of COVID-19 while Joe Biden has been in office than during Trump's time in office. That's astonishing considering the fact that the vaccines were only available for 2 months of the Trump administration. Three vaccines were available for virtually the entire Biden administration.

Biden did worse with 3 vaccines than Trump did without a vaccine. It isn't surprising, therefore, that Biden's approval rating on COVID is now underwater.