Operation Warp Speed Funding Companies
Trump and operation warp speed.
Operation warp speed funding companies. Pfizer did not accept federal funding to help develop or manufacture the vaccine unlike front runners moderna and astrazeneca. 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 has distanced itself from mr. The government has paid astrazeneca moderna pfizer and novavax.
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. Now five finalists for funding have been chosen astrazeneca johnson johnson merck moderna and pfizer. 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.