Operation Warp Speed Initiative
Centers for disease control and prevention and federal partners in operation warp speed a public private partnership.
Operation warp speed initiative. 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. Pfizer unlike its competitors did not join operation warp speed the government initiative designed to erase the financial risk of vaccine and therapeutics development by providing funding to. Operation warp speed is a public private partnership to facilitate at an unprecedented pace the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 countermeasures between components of hhs including cdc fda nih and the biomedical advanced research and development authority barda. Department of health and human service released a statement that announced operation warp speeds goal is to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with.
Now five finalists for funding have been chosen astrazeneca johnson johnson merck moderna and pfizer. Perna is chief operating officer for operation warp speed the governments initiative to fast track the development manufacture and distribution of covid 19 drugs and treatments. Operation warp speed ows is a publicprivate partnership initiated by the trump administration to facilitate and accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnosticsoperation warp speed was introduced in early april 2020 after a round table meeting with industry executives at the white house on march 2. And other federal agencies including the department of agriculture the department of energy and the department of veterans affairs.
Operation warp speed success as 20 million covid vaccine doses expected in december i think its a remarkable achievement within a period of six to seven months said dr. 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. The initiative has poured 10 billion into the clinical development.