Are the appoved Covid Kits made in USA or China?
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The Biden administration announced today that 500,000 Covid 19 test kits have been ordered and will be available starting in January.
Translation: We just now thought about ordering them and the first shipment is expected sometime in January. They won't say how many will be available to distribute in January nor will they say how they will be allocated.
They have not bothered to plan that out yet. It maybe sometime in the Summer before they are readily available.
They are not talking about treatment drugs. I think they over purchased vaccines and will wait until there supply runs out before they move on to other things.
I have heard that there are better vaccines in the pipeline but they are not using WARP SPEED to get those done. Keep producing a vaccine that still has not been approved by the FDA that require boosters every six month.
The Pharma cabal doesn't want to create cures because there is more money in treatment.
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@geobear40
Is the president making sure that the test kits are MADE IN THE USA or are we shipping more manufacturing jobs to communist China?I would bet that they are manufactured in China and then shipped to the US and will spend weeks anchored off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Mayor Pete (who know nothing about transportation) is on the job so no worries.
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The Biden administration announced today that 500,000 Covid 19 test kits have been ordered and will be available starting in January.
OK, so you're off by an order of magnitude there, and you appear to have misread quite a bit:
- The Biden Administration ordered 500-million (not 500-thousand) additional home test kits for COVID-19 (different from existing, LAB test kits).
- These are, apparently, not NEW TECH, just the Federal Gov't stepping in to cover the purchase costs. (As-if the Gov't had the money to spend - but that's a Democrat for you! Spend SPEND SPEND!)
Other sites report that ~191-million of these same home-test-kits were sold in the last week of November (2021) already...
They are not talking about treatment drugs. I think they over purchased vaccines and will wait until there supply runs out before they move on to other things.
Sigh - you don't just see the glass half-empty... you consider the hole at the top of the glass to be a serious design flaw prone to spillage!
The FDA has approved many hospital-based treatments for COVID-19, and permitted a WIDE ARRAY of experimental options.
The FDA also recently approved (via EUA) Pfizer’s Paxlovid - an oral (vs IV) treatment for early COVID-19. Merck's Molnupiravir is expected to receive the same EUA soon, which is a similar ORAL treatment. These drugs are still only by prescription, and are both for use in early COVID-19 disease - within 5 days of the onset of symptoms.
Let's be clear here though: the Federal Gov't in the US is STILL PAYING for all COVID-19 hospitalizations! Insured and uninsured are getting the same level of care for COVID-19 here!
I have heard that there are better vaccines in the pipeline but they are not using WARP SPEED to get those done. Keep producing a vaccine that still has not been approved by the FDA that require boosters every six month.
"Project Warp Speed" was a Federal Gov't spending initiative, started in the Trump Administration, where the US Gov't paid - up-front - for massive amounts of research into COVID-19 vaccines, in exchange for pre-arranged purchasing agreements. They spent about $12-billion under the name Warp Speed, and while the program still exists, it's not under the name anymore. (Politics!)
Research continues for better vaccines, and if/when they become available, the FDA will look into their approvals... but remember: the "goalpost" for a "solid vaccine" was, in mid-2020, to be 50% effctive at preventing death.
18 months later, that seems like a rather low bar - hindsight being 20/20! The truth is, we've never HAD a vaccine that was 95%+ effective at preventing serious illness, much less death, before! The current vaccines are an order of magnitude better than we expected to get out of Warp Speed!
True, their effectiveness against Delta dropped to about 80-85%, and against Omicron it's down to a 70-75% effectiveness - but when measured against the original 50% "goal," they're still doing QUITE WELL!
That said, the research didn't just uncover a single "magic pill" - it created a new kind of vaccine: created using mRNA techniques, originally pioneered for use in a potential HIV vaccine, that is easily (and quickly) "re-tooled" to focus on other viruses with other markers.
Pfizer & BioNTech both say they can create new vaccines for other COVID-19 strains when it becomes necessary... not in years or months, but in weeks!
Oh, and by the way: the Pfizer vaccine is fully approved by the FDA - with the Moderna & J&J vaccines both still authorized, and with full approval in the works (the only difference is a paperwork one - you can get any of them still, and if there were any DANGERS at this point, they would pull the EUA and just lean on the others.
YES - the pharma companies are out to make a buck, but they're in the business of healing people, not killing them! Just how much did you pay (in the US) for your last COVID-19 vaccine? (Answer: nothing - your insurance is required to cover it 100%, regardless of coverages or co-pays, and if you're uninsured, the Federal Gov't is footing the bill.
To be clear: if you want to say that Big Pharma is money hungry, and over-charging for many life-saving drugs? (ESP Insulin for diabetics!) I'm with you! ALL-IN!
But when you want to make up lies & mislead people to support your argument, that's just not helpful...
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@bi4smooth said in Are the appoved Covid Kits made in USA or China?:
"Project Warp Speed" was a Federal Gov't spending initiative, started in the Trump Administration, where the US Gov't paid - up-front - for massive amounts of research into COVID-19 vaccines, in exchange for pre-arranged purchasing agreements. They spent about $12-billion under the name Warp Speed, and while the program still exists, it's not under the name anymore. (Politics!)
It also provided protection from liability "How much has Operation Warp Speed funded the development of the COVID-19 vaccine?
The US programme known as Operation Warp Speed provided US$18 billion in funding for development of vaccines that were intended for US populations. Depending on safety and efficacy, vaccines can become available through mechanisms for emergency use, expanded access with informed consent, or full licensure.Mar 26, 2021but when measured against the original 50% "goal," they're still doing QUITE WELL!
With that kind of logic you could make anything sound great.
Oh, and by the way: the Pfizer vaccine is fully approved by the FDA - with the Moderna & J&J vaccines both still authorized, and with full approval in the works (the only difference is a paperwork one - you can get any of them still, and if there were any DANGERS at this point, they would pull the EUA and just lean on the others.
Next time don't swallow what the MSM feeds you.
https://leohohmann.com/2021/08/25/fda-playing-bait-and-switch-with-americans-tricking-them-into-believing-shots-currently-being-offered-have-been-granted-full-approval-when-they-have-notBut when you want to make up lies & mislead people to support your argument, that's just not helpful...
Show me the lie and I will correct it if necessary.
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@geobear40 said in Are the appoved Covid Kits made in USA or China?:
Show me the lie and I will correct it if necessary.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine
The Pfizer vaccine, now called Comirnaty, is fully approved by the US FDA, and has been since August 23, 2021 - hardly "breaking news"... and 2-days prior to the press-release you quoted.
I'm not sure how more definitive I can be - that's the FDAs actual press release, on their own website...
But look - we can stop arguing this point... this is, for all intents and purposes, a religion for you... Truth be told, there is no authority on Earth that could convince you that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective... and that's OK - I don't think every single human needs to take the vaccine! But a large majority DO need to take the vaccine - and for 2 reasons:
- First and foremost, for their own protection. Vaccinated people still get COVID-19, but they have much "easier" cases, seldom requiring hospitalization - much less dying of the disease. (This is similar to EVERY vaccine: the MMR vaccine, by example, can't stop the measles virus from getting into your body, but it CAN make the infection minor and almost never life-threatening!)
- Secondly, by vaccinating LARGE proportions of the population, we can potentially END the threat of this virus once and for all. But, so long as large segments of the population continue to provide "ample opportunities for incubation and proliferation" of the virus, it will continue to thrive - and mutate - endangering all of us.
EDIT: Let me DIRECTLY refute the primary argument your ridiculous link makes (it claims the FDA approval is for a different vaccine).
In the FDA's own words: "Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals."
So, the vaccine was approved (fully approved) for use in people 16 and older, but the EUA is still the authorization for using the same vaccine for children ages 12-15.
I'm sorry if that is confusing to you, but it makes perfectly clear sense to me... Prior to full approval, Pfizer could not market the vaccine, and so there was no approved marketing name... now, it has been approved, so the marketing name can be used... I'm not confused by that...
