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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]
"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.
Kennedy had made Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and his implementation of Operation Warp Speed, the program to accelerate the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines, a major theme of his ...
The federal government managed the development of several vaccines for the virus through Operation Warp Speed in 2020. Distribution of the vaccines was overseen by the Biden administration during 2021, during which time many pandemic measures were ended. The national emergency related to the pandemic was ended by a bipartisan resolution of ...
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 milder yet highly transmissible omicron variant may blaze a path to the end of the pandemic, but we still need help to fight it.
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 ...