[Genuine Realist]

I don't think people appreciate just how quickly that was done.  Just to give you an idea, a typical FDA review takes six months from submission of the complete package of data, which itself takes about 6 months to generate from the end of a phase 3 trial.

IMHO this was the largest single contribution the Government made to expediting the vaccine. This is the one area where them "doing the right thing" was critical, and they did. However, I am not aware that POTUS had anything to do with the administrative decision to allow incremental submissions. If he did, isn't that undue interference in the FDA operations?

The fastest that a vaccine was developed from identification of the virus to approval before COVID-19 was 4 years (mumps).  The general consensus (and I endorsed this consensus) was that the fastest it could be done, if everything broke correctly, was 12 - 18 months (with 18 being more realistic than 12).  The combination of effort, luck, and yes, support from the administration, allowed this to happen in less than 11 months from sequence to EUA.  Maybe he offered no value of a replacement President, and this was such a no-brainer that even Ted Cruz or Hillary Clinton, had either of them won in 2016, would have gotten us to a vaccine as fast or faster.  Alas, neither of them are President, so we don't get to find out (but if they had been president and pursued the policies and gotten us the vaccine this fast, I would be offering them credit).


BC

I think this is a difference of emphasis. Doing something a "generic" president would probably have done is like a "meets" review. Is that "credit"? Probably a definition. Thus my comment about a LOM. You don't get a LOM for just doing your job. In the "Warp Speed" case, doing your job as POTUS is mostly not getting in the way IMHO.

I repeat my thought that it is way too early to attempt to write history, or make judgments. 

It happened while Trump was in office, and he clearly was invested to some degree in the effort. That's about it.

[Genuine Realist]

I don't think people appreciate just how quickly that was done.  Just to give you an idea, a typical FDA review takes six months from submission of the complete package of data, which itself takes about 6 months to generate from the end of a phase 3 trial.

IMHO this was the largest single contribution the Government made to expediting the vaccine. This is the one area where them "doing the right thing" was critical, and they did. However, I am not aware that POTUS had anything to do with the administrative decision to allow incremental submissions. If he did, isn't that undue interference in the FDA operations?

The fastest that a vaccine was developed from identification of the virus to approval before COVID-19 was 4 years (mumps).  The general consensus (and I endorsed this consensus) was that the fastest it could be done, if everything broke correctly, was 12 - 18 months (with 18 being more realistic than 12).  The combination of effort, luck, and yes, support from the administration, allowed this to happen in less than 11 months from sequence to EUA.  Maybe he offered no value of a replacement President, and this was such a no-brainer that even Ted Cruz or Hillary Clinton, had either of them won in 2016, would have gotten us to a vaccine as fast or faster.  Alas, neither of them are President, so we don't get to find out (but if they had been president and pursued the policies and gotten us the vaccine this fast, I would be offering them credit).


BC

I think this is a difference of emphasis. Doing something a "generic" president would probably have done is like a "meets" review. Is that "credit"? Probably a definition. Thus my comment about a LOM. You don't get a LOM for just doing your job. In the "Warp Speed" case, doing your job as POTUS is mostly not getting in the way IMHO.

I repeat my thought that it is way too early to attempt to write history, or make judgments. 

It happened while Trump was in office, and he clearly was invested to some degree in the effort. That's about it.