Biden Admin. Buys Billions Of Dollars Worth Of Covid Antiviral Pills For The Unvaccinated

The following report is from NBC News:

After a year of relentless efforts to vaccinate Americans, President Joe Biden is spending almost $10 billion on new and experimental Covid-19 treatments that will largely help those he hasn’t been able to convince.

It is the latest sign that administration officials see the pandemic as being far from over, that the incidents of breakthrough cases will continue to present problems and that for the unvaccinated, many who don’t trust or like Biden, they aren’t giving up.

This week alone, the Biden administration inked a $5.25 billion deal with Pfizer for its experimental pill to treat Covid infections and agreed to pay $1 billion for a monoclonal antibody treatment from GlaxoSmithKline. That comes one top of multibillion-dollar deals earlier this month with Merck and Eli Lilly for their Covid medicines.

Spending billions of dollars on pills to treat Covid infections is far from where Biden anticipated he would be less than six months ago when he called on Americans to “declare our independence from the virus” during the “summer of freedom.”

The treatments, which have been shown in studies to reduce the risk of hospitalizations and deaths, would provide the greatest benefit to the 1 in 5 Americans who have not been vaccinated and are at greatest risk for severe illness. But with vaccine immunity reportedly waning and just a fraction of those eligible for a booster having got the additional shot, the drugs could increasingly be needed by the vaccinated.

Our vaccines are safe and highly effective, but even assuming we’re able to get vaccination rates up and boosters to those at highest risk of severe disease, Covid is there to stay.

Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease expert at New York University who advised the Biden transition.

How the pandemic plays out over the coming months carries significant political consequences for the White House and Democrats in Congress who have been trying to shift voters’ focus to the recently passed infrastructure bill. White House officials have attributed Biden’s sagging approval rating to Covid fatigue among the public and blamed rising inflation on the economic disruption created by the pandemic.

With tens of millions of Americans continuing to refuse to get vaccinated, the pills give Biden one more tool in preventing the pandemic from returning to a point where hospitals are overwhelmed, schools are closed and people avoid travel and dining out, public health officials have said.

While administration officials say their focus still remains on increasing vaccination rates, the deals with Pfizer and Merck will provide enough treatments for 15 million people by the end of next year if their drugs are cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, a move expected by the end of the year.

The $10 billion committed this month for the treatments comes on top of the $22.5 billion the United States has spent on vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

Biden specifically directed his staff to order twice as much of the Pfizer drug as they had planned after seeing how effective it was in study results released last week, upping the order to cover 10 million people by the end of 2022, according to a person familiar with the conversation.

This is positive news. This treatment could prove to be another critical tool in our arsenal that will accelerate our path out of the pandemic. But vaccines remain our strongest tool.

Biden said in a statement Thursday announcing the Pfizer deal.

Administration officials have said they expect to see an increase in cases in the colder months as people head indoors and gather for the holidays.

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Ultimately, Biden’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said the way to stop the pandemic is to stop the spread of the virus — something best achieved with the vaccines.

Although antivirals are promising, we must be sure to get our population vaccinated. Antivirals, as good as they are, are not our first line of defense against Covid-19, because we all know it’s much, much more important to prevent an infection than it is to treat.

Fauci said

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Proverbs 11:9

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

Titus 1:12

Once again, this just pure lying, completely and utterly, at its finest. If the Covid pills were this magic bullet to help people, then why are millions of employees getting fired from their jobs because they refused the “vaccines??”

Biden Administration Obstinately Tells Businesses To Press On With Their Vaccine Mandate

It’s just garbage; and no way, no how, are the unvaccinated going to take these pills and other treatments, especially with Biden’s name attached to it and the other players who are making the vaccines.

But to the same token, perhaps some of the unvaccinated would take these pills. After all, many of these same people are using many other pharmaceuticals to stay alive, and even things like Ivermectin are produced by Merck. More hypocrisy!

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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