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[1] [2] The first news report of Operation Warp Speed was on April 29, 2020, [3] [4] [5] and the program was officially announced on May 15, 2020. [1] It was headed by Moncef Slaoui from May 2020 to January 2021 and by David A. Kessler from January to February 2021. [6]
How the project would be paid for is unclear, although “Operation Warp Speed” — which operated between May 2020 through February 2021 — had a budget of as much as $18 billion for the ...
"It was a planning error, and I am responsible," said General Gustave Perna, the chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed.
But Operation Warp Speed wasn't perfect. The program spent $1.2 billion on the purchase of 300 million doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
[53] [54] On 15 May, the government announced funding for a fast-track program called Operation Warp Speed to place multiple vaccine candidates into clinical trials by the fall of 2020 and manufacture 300 million doses of a licensed vaccine by January 2021.
Operation Warp Speed was initiated in early April to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics [21] [22] [23] after a round-table meeting with Trump, Pence and industry executives at the White House on March 2. [24]
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. The logistics of delivering a COVID-19 vaccine to all ...
While OWS was initially named “Project Warp Speed,” Kadlec would later rename it to “Operation Warp Speed” to better reflect the role DoD would play. [13] On April 24, 2020, Kadlec approved the first communications between FDA and companies who would eventually partner with the government to successfully develop and distribute COVID-19 ...