Earlier: Alternative Timeline November 2020: If Pfizer Had Released The Vaccine BEFORE The Election
Congressional Democrats lately have chosen to raise a stink about how the Trump Administration responded to COVID too urgently, not knowing it might open up a can of worms about how Pfizer halted its vaccine clinical trial from late October until the day after the election, which denied Trump his dreaded “October Surprise” of his vaccine-centric strategy against COVID being vindicated.
From the New York Post:
Nate Silver: ‘Liberal elites’ pressured Pfizer to delay vaccine until after 2020 election
By Ariel Zilber
August 25, 2022 8:27amNate Silver claimed “liberal public health elites” pressured Pfizer to delay fast-track approval of its COVID-19 vaccine until after the 2020 presidential election — thus denying then-President Donald Trump a political win before voters headed to the polls.
The number-crunching data journalist reacted to an article by Politico that cited a House report that claimed the Trump administration sought to expedite approvals for both vaccines and “unproven treatments” for COVID-19.
“‘Trump pushed for vaccine approvals too fast’ is the worst possible critique of the Trump administration’s COVID policy,” Silver, founder of the Disney-owned FiveThirtyEight political news and analysis website, tweeted.
“That probably saved a lot of lives. If anything approval should have been faster.”
In a subsequent tweet, Silver wrote that “liberal public health elites” pushed Pfizer to “change its original protocols” that govern its authorization of vaccines so that the decision would be put off until after Election Day two years ago.
Also, the late 2020 push from liberal public health elites that persuaded Pfizer to *change* its original protocols - and had the convenient side-effect of delaying any vaccine announcement until after the election - deserves more scrutiny.https://t.co/1v3ueTNqur
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 24, 2022
Silver noted that Pfizer’s decision “had the convenient side-effect of delaying any vaccine announcement until after the election” and that the story “deserves more scrutiny.”
The FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief said most public health officials “tend to be strong [Democratic] partisans” and that their push for Pfizer to take its time in announcing a vaccine “may have been politically motivated in whole or in part.”
“It’s a story that deserves more reporting and I’ve done some poking around myself,” Silver tweeted.
The Politico story that Silver linked to quotes several public health experts who criticized Pfizer for going too fast in seeking FDA authorization of its vaccine.
The pharmaceutical giant was under intense pressure by the Trump administration and its allies to announce the success of its vaccine at clinical trials before Nov. 3, 2020.
Six days after the election, Pfizer announced that its COVID vaccine was 90% effective.
Trump has said that “Operation Warp Speed,” the government initiative to develop the COVID vaccines, saved some 100 million American lives.
But he also lashed out at Pfizer, accusing the firm of playing “corrupt games” by timing the announcement of its vaccine in order to harm his re-election chances.
The company has denied delaying the results for political reasons.
Silver’s tweet suggesting that Trump’s suspicions of Pfizer could be justified raised eyebrows among some of his more than 3.5 million Twitter followers.
“This is the kind of take I’d expect to find on Truth Social,” one Twitter user wrote, referencing the social media site founded by Trump after he was kicked off Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms in the wake of the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021.
One Twitter user accused Silver of going “full MAGA conspiracy guy.”
You know and I know that what Silver is referring to is Pfizer’s decision in late October 2020 to shut down processing of lab samples in its vaccine clinical trial until the day after the election. William Gruber, Pfizer SVP of vaccines, admitted to this extraordinary action of Pfizer’s on November 9, 2020 in an interview with Matthew Herper of STAT magazine, as I pointed out in Taki’s Magazine on November 11, 2020.
This year, in a book review of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s memoir Moonshot, I laid out the full story.
But virtually nobody other than my readers has a clue about these curious events. That’s because they don’t fit into popular worldviews (the Democrats: Trump was anti-vaxx and he lost by a mile; Republicans: Trump was anti-vaxx and he won easily), so therefore nobody else can even imagine this history could exist.
It’s a good example of how the human brain tends to be impervious to information it can’t fit into larger frameworks.
