In addition to pretending to continue in politics, the former president made a startling revelation regarding the coronavirus drug.
Donald Trump has once again generated controversy with his statements. This time the former US president spoke not only about politics but also about the pandemic, specifically about the COVID-19 vaccine.
Recently the Republican attended a political event at Sea-on-Lake; where according to CNN reporter Kevin Liptak, he insulted Senator Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), whom he described as “stupid son of a bitch * & *% a”.
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As if that were not enough he dared to brag about the health strategy to counteract the effects of VOCID-19 in the US. UU.
“Trump told everyone they should call it‘ trumpcine ’(instead of vaccine),” Liptak posted on Twitter in reference to the suggestion about coronavirus immunization.
This is not the first time Trump has been awarded vaccine credits. In March he said that thanks to him the vaccine was developed in record time.
“I hope everyone remembers when they get the COVID-19 vaccine that if I hadn’t been president, you would get this beautiful injection in five years, at best, or you probably wouldn’t get it at all. I hope everyone remembers it. ! ”Trump said at the time.
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Vaccination credentials, another controversy
The debate over the creation of a document to identify people vaccinated against covid-19 has intensified in the United States, where companies and state governments are studying ways to do so as Republicans try to use the issue to attack the government. by Joe Biden.
In the last few hours, the president of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus of Congress, legislator Andy Biggs, introduced a bill that would prohibit federal agencies from issuing any kind of documentation that shows an individual has been vaccinated or not.
Speaking to Efe on Friday, Biggs considered that these credentials would only serve to impose the “Big Brother” surveillance system on American society.
The bill, backed by 18 other ultra-conservative lawmakers close to former President Donald Trump, has no chance of being passed by a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, but shows how far Republicans are willing to go.
Faced with this, the Joe Biden Government has made it clear that it has no intention of getting involved or supporting any effort to create a credential that is mandatory at the federal level, although it has left the door open for the private sector develops its own systems.
An idea driven by the private sector
The idea of the private sector is to create a universal credential that can be used by airlines, restaurants or stadiums to allow entry to Americans who have already been vaccinated, in an attempt to increase the sense of tranquility and return to economic activity prior to the pandemic.
These credentials would be similar to aircraft boarding passes, which can be displayed with an application on the phone or can be printed on a document in pdf format.
Popularly, they have been called “immunization passports,” but their use would be only within the U.S., not abroad.
Behind this proposal is a coalition called the “Vaccination Credentials Initiative,” which is comprised of 225 public and private organizations, including Cynic May and technology giants IBM and Microsoft.
IBM, for example, has already helped New York State create its own digital credential dubbed “Excelsior Pass” and which some New Yorkers began using last week to enter Madison Square Garden.
Other members of this coalition are The Commons Project, a non-profit organization specializing in technology that has developed the “CommonPass” application that is already being used by travelers on some JetBlue, United and Lufthansa routes to show that they tested negative on a covid-19 test.
Airlines for America, the business association in the sector in the US, does not want the government to force passengers to be vaccinated in order to board a plane, but it is in favor of creating a credential that increases the feeling of passenger safety.
How to choose from 17 options
One of the biggest challenges, however, is choosing the best system from the 17 currently developing companies or non-governmental organizations.
One of them is the technological EagleForce, which last year launched an application called “myVAx” that allows users to document all their vaccines, including anticovid, and which is already available in the US as well as in other countries. ‘the American and African continent, its executive director, Stanley Campbell, told Efe.
Campbell, originally from Florida, was in talks with the government of that state to implement it; but just last week Florida Gov. Republican Ron DeSantis signed an executive order banning companies from requesting such credentials from their customers.
Another Republican Party star governor, Greg Abbott of Texas, has passed a similar measure this week and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is evaluating it.
Internationally, the World Health Organization (WHO) has not recommended the use of these credentials because it is not yet known to what extent vaccines reduce the transmission of the disease.