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Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2021-08-25): Operation Warp Speed was depending on Pfizer to deliver more than two-thirds of the vaccines expected in late 2020. But the company's initial contract, worth nearly $2 billion, contained limited reporting requirements to the federal government when there was a delay. As a result, the government didn't know how many doses were really coming, and Pfizer's estimates kept dropping, according to several people familiar with the matter. [...] Avellanet wasn't involved in Operation Warp Speed, but he has decades of experience consulting for pharmaceutical manufacturers. He said anyone from the industry probably knew — and likely cautioned — Operation Warp Speed that they were making a "big, ginormous assumption of everything going right." [...] Even as Pfizer trimmed its projections, Operation Warp Speed was "trying to be incredibly collaborative, maybe to a fault," said a person familiar with Operation Warp Speed, who declined to be identified further, adding that the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority in particular didn't want to throw pharmaceutical companies under the bus for failing to meet initial vaccine supply expectations.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-09-07): • By the time Operation Warp Speed had announced its scope and leadership, most of the decline in the case-fatality rate had already occurred. [...] "You don’t hear that from the press very often. They don’t like to talk about that. So the fatality rate, 85% — think of that — since April." [...] More to the point, Operation Warp Speed only announced its scope and leadership on May 15, and by that time, the case-fatality rate had already fallen most of the way from its peak.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-09-08): What’s really changed since April is that we have identified lots more people who have the virus which, as this article in Psychiatric Times notes, has "increased the size of the denominator, while the numerator has remained relatively unchanged." Meaning, the number of people dying is not all that different. We are simply better able to ID who has mild or asymptomatic cases far better.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2021-08-17): Moncef Slaoui, Operation Warp Speed "The efficacy of these vaccines is spectacular. It’s 95%, the same whether you are an African-American or Hispanic or over 65 years old. … Remarkably, these two vaccines developed in different companies, two different continents, give incredibly similar results, totally independent, which is also enhancing the likelihood that these data absolutely are real." In a triumph of modern science and leadership, millions of highly effective doses of COVID-19 vaccines are currently being manufactured, distributed, and administered around the world. For this, much credit goes to Moncef Slaoui, the Chief Science Officer for Operation Warp Speed, a U.S. public–private partnership that has fostered development of these breakthrough drugs.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-09-17): There was a major decline in the case-fatality rate — the number of coronavirus deaths divided by known cases — compared to an earlier phase in the epidemic. However, "groundbreaking therapies" are only part of the reason. Check it out»
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2024-06-15): Donald Trump stated on October 29, 2020 in a rally in Tampa, Fla.: "Nobody's ever seen a number like this… (33.1%) economic growth is four times greater than what the experts expected." Donald Trump stated on September 29, 2020 in the first 2020 presidential debate: Says Joe Biden "passed a tax bill that gave us all these privileges for depreciation and for tax credits. We built a building, and we get tax credits like the hotel on Pennsylvania Ave." Donald Trump stated on September 7, 2020 in a press conference: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April." Donald Trump stated on August 16, 2020 in a Wall Street Journal op-ed: "For the past three years, the state senator who represents Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco, has led a push to abolish single-family zoning in California." Donald Trump stated on May 24, 2020 in a tweet: "Cases, numbers and deaths (of COVID-19) are going down all over the Country!" Donald Trump stated on May 19, 2020 in a speech: "On the Southern border, as you know, the wall is going up, it's going up very rapidly. We're at 182 miles." [...] Donald Trump stated on September 7, 2020 in a press conference: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April."
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-10-09): And in the first week of September, Trump declared at a press conference: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April." The claim was misleading, according to PolitiFact: One reason the fatality rate was much higher in April was that testing then was focused on those who were more severely ill and therefore more likely to die. The source of the 85% figure? A chart drawn up by Bhattacharya.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-09-08): We’re currently witnessing the fastest labor market recovery from an economic crisis in history, world history. By contrast Biden presided over the worst, the weakest and the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression. It was a long slow slog and it was a very small … Very small in growth and very small in every other factor that you need. It was the weakest recovery. Under my leadership, next year will be the greatest economic year in the history of our country I project and some people are starting to agree. We have a V shape, it’s probably a super V and you see what’s going on with the stock market where it’s … In certain cases already setting records. The NASDAQ has set 17 records already and this is as we’re hopefully rounding the final turn in the pandemic. First we’ll end the pandemic under Operation Warp Speed. You don’t hear that from the press very often. They don’t like to talk about that. So the fatality rate, 85%. Think of that since April.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-09-17): This ongoing phase 3 trial involving 583 high-risk patients with symptomatic COVID-19 5 days or less after symptom onset, showed a relative risk reduction for hospitalization or death of 85% (97.24% CI, 44-96). Three patients in the treated group as compared with 21 patients in the placebo group had disease progression leading to hospitalization or death. [...] HHS in coordination with NIH and Operation Warp Speed has just launched a new website entitled Combat COVID to pull together the most current information for people of all groups, races, ethnicities and backgrounds who want to get involved in fighting the pandemic. You can find resources to join a prevention trial, locate treatment trials if you are infected, find places to donate plasma if you have recovered from an infection, or find treatment options or trials if you are a physician. [...] Vaccines: Previous research on SARS-CoV-1 and MERS has led to more rapid development of potential vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. As part of Operation Warp Speed, the federal government is funding three vaccine candidates for Phase 3 trials this summer: mRNA-1273 developed by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) scientists and collaborators at Moderna, which directs cells to express a viral protein to elicit an immune response, starting in July; AZD1222, which uses a chimpanzee adenovirus vector to deliver a SARS-CoV-2 protein, being developed by Oxford’s Jenner Institute in partnership with AstraZeneca, starting in August; and BNT162, an mRNA-based vaccine being developed by BioNTech and Pfizer, which will start in September. A nice table and summary can be found in this article.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2020-10-14): We’ll beat this virus and we’ll eradicate this pestilence and all of the things that happened to our country, our lives and our planet. Our aggressive and early action saved up to 2 million lives. If you look at the original numbers, it was projected at 2.2 million lives. We’re at 210,000. And one is too many, it should’ve never happened, should have never been allowed to happen by China. Thanks to advances in treatment we pioneered in record time, we’ve reduced the fatality rate 85% since April. And that number is now gone even better. I’m also working to get emergency approval for the powerful antibody treatment I received that has shown extraordinary promise. As you know, a week ago, I wasn’t feeling so hot, and I had a drug, Regeneron, that it made me feel very good, very fast. They call it therapeutic, but I don’t think it was therapeutic. I think it was a cure. For me, it was something that was very good. Now who knows, maybe that would have happened anyway. Maybe I would have recovered beautifully anyway. All I know is once I had Regeneron, it worked out very well.
Claim: "Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.” (Donald Trump, 2020-09-07)
Evidence (2024-08-22): August 25, 2020 âWarp Speedâ COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts Aim for Diverse Volunteers and Long-Lasting Protection [...] Will Trumpâs âOperation Warp Speedâ rush the science of a coronavirus vaccine? Dr. Larry Corey explained âOperation Warp Speedâ for developing COVID-19 vaccines, and the safety and efficacy standards of the program.Â
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2020-02-29): A rural county in southeastern Indiana had a spike in HIV cases in 2014 and 2015. After noticing the spike, state officials began investigating the causes of the outbreak and identifying people who might have been infected. However, a crucial component of the response — a needle exchange program — was authorized months after officials noticed the increase in HIV cases.
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2020-02-16): 5 Years After Indiana's Historic HIV Outbreak, Many Rural Places Remain At Risk [...] All this threatens to stall the administration's HIV goals, which are championed by two prominent figures who responded to Austin's outbreak: Indiana's former governor Vice President Mike Pence and the former state health commissioner, Dr. Jerome Adams, now the U.S. surgeon general. [...] The initial response was slow. Pence, then governor, opposed syringe exchange programs, which were illegal in Indiana. It took him 29 days after the outbreak was announced to sign an executive order allowing a state-supervised syringe program. By then, HIV cases had risen to 79.
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2020-02-27): Editor’s note: President Donald Trump named Vice President Mike Pence to lead the nation’s response to the novel coronavirus on Feb. 26. In light of that news, KHN is highlighting this recent story that delved into how Pence handled an HIV outbreak when he was governor of Indiana — and how the country has failed to heed the public health lessons learned there. [...] All this threatens to stall the administration’s HIV goals, which are championed by two prominent figures who responded to Austin’s outbreak: Indiana’s former governor Vice President Mike Pence and the former state health commissioner, Dr. Jerome Adams, now the U.S. surgeon general. [...] The initial response was slow. Pence, then governor, opposed syringe exchange programs, which were illegal in Indiana. It took him 29 days after the outbreak was announced to sign an executive order allowing a state-supervised syringe program. By then, HIV cases had risen to 79.
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2020-02-27): Others, however, have criticized Pence's response to the state's worst outbreak of HIV in its history and the nation's first HIV outbreak linked to the injection of oral painkillers while he was Indiana's governor in 2015. The crisis began when people started injecting a liquid form of a potent painkiller multiple times a day and sharing needles. [...] Leana Wen, the past head of Planned Parenthood, also tweeted Wednesday: "As Governor of Indiana, an HIV/AIDS epidemic flourished until he allowed public health -- not ideology -- to direct policy & response." [...] "As you know, one of the largest outbreaks of another virus, HIV, occurred in Indiana. It was the result of critical testing sites and clinics being closed due to cuts to state funding. When it was determined that the cases were spiking due to needle sharing, then Governor Pence failed to heed the advice of medical experts. He really did slow walk the needed public health response," Panetta said. "Can you assure us, Mr. Secretary, that HHS will follow the advice of leading medical experts and not delay implementation?"
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2015-03-27): The dozens of cases, described as an epidemic, are centered in Scott County, about a half-hour north of Louisville with a population of about 25,000. Indiana Governor Mike Pence declared a public health emergency there in March after dozens of cases of HIV were discovered. An outbreak of HIV may seem odd in such a remote part of the country, but it’s been fueled by growing heroin and drug use in rural counties like this one. A number of Midwestern states have struggled with a recent uptick in drug and needle use, and Indiana specifically has seen an increase in the use of a powerful painkiller called Opana, which can be altered and injected. The number of deaths related to opioids like Opana rose from 200 a year in 2002 to 700 in 2012, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. [...] Read next: At Least 120 Now Infected In Indiana HIV Outbreak
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2016-12-09): AUSTIN, Ind. -- The rural community of Scott County, approximately an hour and a half south of Indianapolis, made international news when public health officials discovered an HIV outbreak the likes of which nobody had ever seen. [...] News of the HIV outbreak in Scott County broke in early 2015. The sparsely staffed health department there had never handled HIV cases before then. Instead, the regional Sexually Transmitted Diseases Department in Clark County had handled all cases of HIV. The system made sense at the time. [...] PREVIOUS | Gov. Pence declares public health emergency over HIV outbreak
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2015-03-26): An HIV "epidemic" fueled by needle-sharing opiate addicts has infected at least 72 people in one southern Indiana county as Gov. Mike Pence plans to declare a public health emergency in that community on Thursday. The outbreak's swift acceleration in Scott County — beginning with seven known HIV-positive patients in late January — has prompted state officials to ask the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to deploy investigators to test residents and to help control further spread of the virus, Pence said. [...] Related: Report: Prescription drug abuse linked to HIV outbreak in Indiana
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2020-03-02): Pence described his response to the outbreak of HIV in Scott County: "the state of Indiana did not allow for providing a needle exchange to citizens. But the CDC came in and made a recommendation. And I declared a public health emergency. And made for 30 days a needle exchange available in the state of Indiana. And I’m proud to say that every one of those patients was treated. We ended the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus in that community." It’s true that Pence faced an HIV outbreak while he was the governor, and that he eventually allowed a needle exchange. But his revisionist history misrepresents his role in what transpired in the small town of Austin, Indiana five years ago, where over 200 people were infected with HIV. What happened is that Pence failed to act in response to increasingly urgent signs of a significant HIV outbreak, and he delayed implementation of vital public health measures. Among public health experts, the Indiana outbreak is considered a failure of state response, and an example of how poor political leadership can actually make a crisis worse. [...] Pence’s handling of the Indiana HIV outbreak is a case study in mismanagement of a public health crisis. His inaction as governor gave Austin, Indiana with a population of around 4,200, a higher HIV incidence than "any country in sub-Saharan Africa," said Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the CDC.
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2020-03-02): Vice President Mike Pence's History Managing Indiana's HIV Crisis As Governor Under Scrutiny Now That He's Overseeing Federal Coronavirus Response (CNN) -- When President Donald Trump appointed Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the U.S. government's response to the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, he said the former Indiana governor had "a certain talent for this." [...] The Indiana emergency peaked during Pence's governorship, when public health officials noticed a cluster of HIV and hepatitis C in rural Indiana around November 2014. It was the largest outbreak of the virus in the state's history, NPR reported at the time. [...] After this story published, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who served as Indiana's state health commissioner during the HIV crisis, said efforts taken by himself and Pence served as an example to other states in handling an HIV outbreak.
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2020-02-27): The announcement has cast light on Pence’s record as a lawmaker and his handling of a major public health crisis during his time as governor of Indiana. The worst HIV outbreak in the state’s history happened on his watch in 2015, which critics blamed on Pence’s belated response and his opposition to authorizing a needle-exchange program. [...] The spread of the disease was attributed to people injecting Opana, an addictive painkiller, with shared needles. But Pence didn’t agree with federal health experts that distributing clean needles was a good idea. [...] After 75 people were confirmed to be HIV-positive, Pence announced he would allow a 30-day needle exchange.
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2020-02-27): Vice President Pence is now in charge of U.S. coronavirus response, prompting a look back at his health record as Indiana governor facing an HIV outbreak, a drug epidemic and Medicaid expansion. [...] KELLY: It is true that Vice President Mike Pence has dealt with public health crises before. When he was governor of Indiana, five years ago, his state faced an outbreak of a different kind - a cluster of HIV cases linked to the opioid epidemic. Jake Harper is an investigative health reporter with WFYI in Indianapolis. He covered that outbreak. He joins me now. [...] HARPER: So in early 2015, the state announced that people in Austin, Ind., were contracting HIV. Austin's a small rural town sort of near the Kentucky border. It has little more than 4,000 people, but that outbreak eventually grew to more than 200 who were infected with HIV. The virus was spreading through injection drug use. People were taking this painkiller, injecting it. At the same time, they were sharing their needles and spreading HIV.
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2021-06-01): Indiana Needle Exchange That Helped Contain A Historic HIV Outbreak To Be Shut Down In 2015, Indiana's rural Scott County found itself in the national spotlight when intravenous drug use and sharing needles led to an outbreak of HIV. [...] Carrie Lawrence, associate director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention at Indiana University says eliminating the supply of clean syringes is not going to help people who are struggling with addiction stop injecting drugs. They're likely to continue even with dirty needles. "That's how Indiana got known for our HIV outbreak," she says.
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2020-02-27): One of Vice President Mike Pence’s defining moments during his one term as Indiana governor? Lackluster public health efforts, which led to a massive HIV outbreak. The failure was spurred by public health funding cuts and Pence’s moralistic stance against needle exchanges. [...] Pence first laid the groundwork for Indiana’s HIV outbreak as a member of Congress back in 2011, when the House passed his amendment to defund Planned Parenthood. Then, in 2013, Pence’s first year as governor of Indiana, Scott County’s one Planned Parenthood closed in the wake of public health spending cuts. Since that particular Planned Parenthood was also the county’s only HIV testing center, there was no longer a place for the county’s 24,000 residents to get tested. [...] Pence’s public health record in Indiana often seems to be overlooked nowadays ― a frustrating oversight, considering nearly 200 people contracted HIV while Pence twiddled his thumbs over harm reduction and de-emphasized public health spending.
Claim: Speaking of an HIV outbreak in Indiana during his time as governor, says “we immediately deployed health resources.” (Mike Pence, 2020-02-29)
Evidence (2017-03-14): But the Vice President himself oversaw one state’s worst public health crisis of recent history whilst he was Governor of Indiana: an HIV outbreak fuelled by public healthcare cuts and a ban on distributing clean needles. [...] In 2013, during Pence’s first year as Governor of Indiana, the one Planned Parenthood clinic in Scott County was forced to close by public spending cuts, leaving the county’s 24,000 residents with no HIV testing centre. [...] Public health experts in Indiana wished the Governor had acted more swiftly to halt the outbreak.