Operation Warp Speed Issues
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.
Operation warp speed issues. Nicknamed operation warp speed this program has provided billions of dollars to private sector companies for the development of multiple vaccines that may protect individuals against covid 19. On may 15 2020 the united states government announced operation warp speed ows a partnership of the department of health and human services hhs the department of defense dod and the. Operation warp speed was started in the spring as a public private partnership to facilitate at an unprecedented pace the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 countermeasures according to the trump administrations own description of the program. The operation warp speed distribution strategy uses a centralized distributor mckesson for all vaccine candidates except pfizer.
The last time the. It will promote mass production of multiple vaccines based on preliminary evidence allowing for faster distribution if clinical. May 1 2020 at 120 pm edt the federal government has launched operation warp speed to deliver a covid 19 vaccine by january months ahead of standard vaccine timelines. The problem for operation warp speed is even if it succeeds in facilitating the quick development of a vaccine and the large scale production of enough doses to vaccinate most of the us population.
There has been much concern about the independence of individuals in the fda who will be reviewing the results from these clinical trials and the cdc which will be involved in their. Operation warp speed was introduced in early april 2020 after a round table meeting with industry executives at the white house on march 2. This is intentionally done due to the companys internal. The most important medical development initiative in recent history is the covid 19 vaccine development program.
Though much of the trump administrations covid response has been woefully ineffective warp speed operators have been in communication with drug companies to distribute a vaccine once its efficacy.