The Covid vaccine was ALWAYS going to come from the U.S. I said this repeatedly early on and of course some pooh-poohed me for being jingoistic. Nah. Just common sense, which has fled portions of our country.
No single-payer, socialized medicine country was ever going to develop it — at least in useful time — because their very system kills risk-reward innovation driven by a free-market, capitalistic principles, and sucks off our system for advances.
So yes, once again, the United States, via free people in free companies operating in a (partially) free market rescues the world, this time from the Communist Chinese spawned and spread virus.
Not backing off any of these points because they are true and eyes need to be open.