Operation Warp Speed Grants
Operation warp speed is a partnership among several federal government agencies to accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnostics including the specific goal of delivering 300 million doses of a safe effective vaccine for covid 19 by january 2021.
Operation warp speed grants. Notably operation warp speed will manufacture promising candidate vaccines at an industrial scale before efficacy and safety are confirmed. The initiative operation warp speed has the goal to support the production of 300 million covid 19 vaccine doses for the us by early 2021. Cnn president donald trump has essentially given operation warp speed a blank check as the team of government officials scientists and private companies aims to produce hundreds of millions of. The timeline for the production of such a high number of vaccine doses with candidates only in phase i or phase ii trials is very optimistic given that vaccine developments have required a minimum of five years in the past.
Operation warp speeds goal is to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by january 2021 as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnostics collectively known as countermeasures. So operation warp speeds mission is to enable and accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutics to help control the covid 19 pandemic and save lives. Now five finalists for funding have been chosen astrazeneca johnson johnson merck moderna and pfizer. Under the trump administrations operation warp speed the us.
So operation warp speeds mission is to enable and accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutics to help control the covid 19 pandemic and save lives. According to federal records the first major covid 19 vaccine award. Operation warp speed preps for covid 19 vaccine delivery upon fda approval. On may 15th almost six months ago to the day we stated the goal of the operation which was to have vaccines and therapeutics available and approved for use in the us.
The federal governments crash covid 19 response operation is stockpiling vaccine doses that will be free for all americans. Operation warp speed ramps up us based manufacturing capacity for vials for covid 19 vaccines and treatments. See more articles in this edition.