As an American, it has been incredibly demoralizing seeing one institution after another fail miserably. I didn’t have high expectations, but oh boy did we fall way short.
But still, horrible to see.
-- Churchill
3 vaccines in record time.. I know J&J is still pending. I want the Healthcare/CDC/FDA pipeline to be improved.. Without American ingenuity the world is a much bleaker place.
3 is a good number and perhaps more will come from USA.
That's not to say that the US hasn't been playing important roles, both now and in the research that enabled this. But "without American ingenuity" we'd be using vaccines from several other countries (including several more that are currently in development, as well as China and Russia, who have approved vaccines already in use).
If you want to make the point “but we’ll do a great job distributing it”, an argument I’m not feeling positive about, then make that argument explicitly.