Operation Warp Speed October
Operation warp speeds moncef slaoui seen here at the white house in may says clinical trials of experimental covid 19 vaccines will soon reveal if they work.
Operation warp speed october. Operation warp speed is the trump administrations multibillion dollar push to develop and manufacture hundreds of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine. Operation warp speed the trump administrations unprecedented effort to accelerate production and distribution of a coronavirus vaccine is already producing tens of millions of vaccine doses. 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. Department of health and human services hhs secretary alex azar will meet with cdc director robert r.
Operation warp speed is a partnership among components of the department of health and human services and the department of defense engaging with private firms and other federal agencies and coordinating among existing hhs wide efforts to accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnostic. And agency leadership to discuss the ongoing covid 19 response and operation warp speed. On wednesday october 21 us. Department of health and human services and the department of defense to meet the us.
Slaoui has been instrumental in guiding. In july pfizer got a 195 billion deal with the governments operation warp speed the multiagency effort to rush a vaccine to market to deliver 100 million doses of the vaccine. Redfield will host a press briefing. Top adviser to operation warp speed calls an october vaccine extremely unlikely.
Following the meeting the secretary and dr. Governments operation warp speed program goal to begin delivering 300 million doses of a vaccine for covid 19 in 2021 their release read.