To be fair, he's right about covid vs. flu. SARS first showed up 2002 with covid popping up in 2019 (maybe 2018), so we only had around a decade and a half of research on prepping for covid.
20 years compared to 17 years is obviously a ginormous amount of time that totally wasn't why there was research being done on a covid vaccine by the time the pandemic hit. Definitely didn't have any pre-existing knowledge of a SARS variant because you need three years to properly prepare (and by "properly prepare" I mean "do nothing at all because the US doesn't take people's health seriously and Democrats are going to make it a talking point during Trump's admin, rather than potentially making Biden look bad.").
To be fair, he's right about covid vs. flu. SARS first showed up 2002 with covid popping up in 2019 (maybe 2018), so we only had around a decade and a half of research on prepping for covid.
20 years compared to 17 years is obviously a ginormous amount of time that totally wasn't why there was research being done on a covid vaccine by the time the pandemic hit. Definitely didn't have any pre-existing knowledge of a SARS variant because you need three years to properly prepare (and by "properly prepare" I mean "do nothing at all because the US doesn't take people's health seriously and Democrats are going to make it a talking point during Trump's admin, rather than potentially making Biden look bad.").