I just don't quite get the whole "You win / I lose" way of framing this whole debacle. It was never about that. At all. Nor was it necessarily just a matter of "We don't trust big pharma". We were cautious. We were immune. We waited and checked the data. There was not much guesswork on our side.

It's too late for him to alter course, so perhaps this is as far as he can take the notion at this point. That way he can throw up his hands and say "Win some/lose some" without really going into the fact that his years might be numbered on less than 2 fingers.