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Since the early days of the pandemic, CBS News has repeatedly suggested the Trump administration was not taking coronavirus seriously and was doing next to nothing to address it. But on Thursday, the CBS Evening News was disgusted after learning that the administration was in the process of stockpiling glass vials in anticipation of a vaccine.On top of that, they omitted how the administration was funding groundbreaking syringe manufacturing techniques that would eventually eliminate the need for glass vials....Beyond his science-free claim that 7.7 billion glass vials would be needed (not every single person on the planet would need to vaccinated, and the vials could be sterilized and reused), Tyab was aghast that the President was trying to secure what Americans needed to be safe:QuoteThe Trump administration has been trying to secure supplies only for the U.S. But scientists at the WHO are warning that America-first approach will only prolong this still very global pandemic, even with an effective vaccine.So, according to CBS, Trump wasn’t doing enough for Americans while at the same time being too nationalistic and not thinking about the rest of the world.But according to an NBC report from May 12, the Trump administration had allocated $138 million to a groundbreaking manufacturing technique for syringes. “The departments of Defense and Health and Human Services will now partner with health start-up Apiject Systems America. The company makes plastic prefilled syringes,†reported correspondent Gabe Gutierrez on NBC Nightly News.
The Trump administration has been trying to secure supplies only for the U.S. But scientists at the WHO are warning that America-first approach will only prolong this still very global pandemic, even with an effective vaccine.
