Loren Terveen

Here is how you would preserve trust in the vaccine. -Get all the data from phase 3 as you said you would -Share it publicly and transparently -Do that when you get results. When will that be?

That is going to be when 10s of thousands of people have had enough exposure to the virus and when those who got the vaccine can be compared against those who didn't. If that happens at 6 o'clock tonight, great. If it takes 3 months or 6, that's when we will have an answer.

Before you ask 30 million healthy people to take something, you have to do that? Rushing a short time could cost us our ability to eradicate this in the foreseeable future. I'm going to suggest how you handle it when Trump asks for the EUA to be issued.

I understand you have shown a weakness to please the president. Someone will try to convince you that for a small subset of the population its safe and since they are at risk, you should grant limited approval.

If you grant it & you shouldn't, your senior scientists have vowed to resign. If they do, game over. So tell the president that you will side with your scientists this time no matter what they say. Tell him that now. Tell us that.

Trump has the authority to overrule you as does Secretary Azar. Force them to do it. If they back down, you will have preserved enough trust. If they don't it will be one of many unprecedented steps, but the scientific community will rally with a constant message behind you.

My advice to Democrats is not to reflexively rebel against the vaccine even as poorly designed theater as it is. That is the trap Trump is setting. The more controversial, the worse or more limited the data, the better for him.

He wants to paint the Democrats as anti-vaccine just because he is for it. Don't do that. Embrace getting a vaccine to people as soon as possible. Show people that, unlike Trump, you will put people's lives first. Let scientific experts speak to the data.