Making it even more curious why it was announced a couple days AFTER the election... They knew way before election day, yet waited? lol Everything is political, especially in an election year. Has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with the amount of time and preparation required to have all of the logistics in place. I can assure you this is exactly what happens with all drug launches, pre/post-COVID/elections/etc., and is exactly what happened with the half-dozen or so drug launches that I have been a part of. Everything is planned well in advance, from when the Phase 3 data will likely be available to when they will likely be ready to submit to the FDA to when the FDA will likely review so that they are ready to flip the switch and start shipping within hours of FDA approval. No, they didn't know, they had to wait for the data to come in, but given the urgency and the number of lives that are at stake they had to be ready to hit the ground running as soon as the data was available. Had they not been ready when the data was available, they would have been roasted.