National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins contradicted the Biden Administration on Sunday when he said the Trump Administration deserves credit for the “breathtaking” coronavirus vaccine development.
“The Operation Warp Speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to [former HHS Secretary Alex Azar], was a[n] effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary. And it was thought about as a Manhattan Project,” Collins said.
“Mask wearing…became so politicized, so emotional, so based on everything except the facts.”
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Collins also noted vaccines “got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this virus is at least five years faster than it’s ever been before.”
This comes after President Joe Biden said at a CNN town hall on
